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Laura Kikauka
Project Description: Guided by voices
Guided By Voices: Illuminated Still Lives is a group exhibition of small discrete light emitting artworks. In Guided By Voices light doubles as a material presence and as a trigger for meaning, suggesting purity, knowledge, and the shifting play between light and darkness. The exhibition features works by Tony Matelli (New York), Wyn Geleynse (London), Laura Kikauka (Berlin/Meaford) and Ooma Haru Mooma (London). Guided By Voices is curated by Jason Schiedel and Paul Walde.
Forest City Gallery: September 11 to October 16, 2009
Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00pm to 5:00pm.
Opening Reception
September 11, 2009, 7pm to 10pm
Contact:
Jason Schiedel, Director
Forest City Gallery
258 Richmond Street,
London, Ontario,
N6B 2H7
(519)434-5875
forestcitygallery@gmail.com
http://home.golden.net/~fcg/
Artist Biography
Laura Kikauka’s body of work over the past twenty-five years encompasses various mediums including site specific installation, mixed media, electronic sculpture, drawing, photography, video, performance, music, text and costume creations. Kikauka’s installations establish a highly specific visual (and often audio) language that blends the increasingly overlapping worlds of high and low art forms. In general Laura’s ‘excessive aesthetic’ is comparable to urban archeology and addresses issues of consumer culture, and the question of good and bad taste. It also celebrates failure in a humourous and ironic manner.
Kikauka’s work is inspired and derived from decades of on-going collecting of found objects. Employing the formal strategy of meticulously sorting and organizing these objects, as well as modifying or transforming them, she then creates specifically themed and coded installations that transform gallery and exhibition spaces into densely packed, highly detailed installations.
Laura’s categorization speaks of similarities and differences. The Funny Farm studios in rural Meaford and in Berlin are living and working spaces treated as on-going installations that exemplify, through a density of detail her interest in low class consumer culture. It is with a sense of sarcasm and empathy that she explores this reoccurring theme.
In addition to Kikauka’s long term ongoing projects recent solo exhibitions include: Celebration of Failure at SpaceX in Exeter, England, FOR THE LOVE OF GAUD/ Damien’s Worst at gallerie DNA, Berlin, Exactly the Same, but Completely Different at the Power Plant in Toronto, and M.A.N.I.A.C. at MAK (Museum fur angewandte Kunst) in Vienna, Austria. Her performances and studio work have been the subject of numerous texts and group exhibitions, and garnered many accolades including awards from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
Laura Kikauka lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Meaford, Ontario.
