XSPACE IN JANUARY: INNER LANDSCAPES

Joshua Barndt’s Limbo at XPACE on Ossington has a just a little of Altmejd’s The Index at the AGO. In so far as the work’s creation of a place as an expression of human experience and inner myth.

The low ceiling’d basement space – a cellar – is mostly covered by mounds of tires, plywood structures, earth, growing grass and full garbage bags. A takeaway about Barndt’s installation reads “...details hold poetic potential. ‘We collect our garbage in plastic bags to be forgotten’. Though forgotten, garbage does not disappear. Instead it is stored in the metaphorical basement of our consciousness...”

Its worth a visit just to see the large scale knitted characters in the ground floor show Static and Loss (shown below) because, well, they're wierd-cool.

Jan 8th to Feb 6th, 2010, 58 Ossington Ave Toronto www.xpace.info