Robert Fones Drops, 2007

open June 15 - close July 13



Over the past few years al&d Sessional Lecturer Robert Fones has worked on a number of photo-based projects that combine images of water, letterforms and other pictorial elements to suggest imaginary or possible narratives. In Drops, the work he has created for convenience, he combines conventions of product photography with the tradition of the convenience store display window to construct a pictorial space that is both interior and exterior, product and display space, gigantic and microcosmic.



While drops of water in product photography signify products that are fresh or cold, the oversized drops in Drops transform the window space and by association the whole building into a gigantic cold or fresh object. At the same time, each drop contains a distorted and inverted image of the building with an out-of-focus background image of a previous display window installation. These displacements of time and space suggest a narrative of change within the display window and in its immediate environs.



convenience is a window gallery that provides an opening for art that engages, experiments, and takes risks with the architectural, urban, and civic realm.



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24/7 window gallery

58 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto ON M6K 2V9

(at Seaforth Avenue, one block North of Queen)

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Contact: Robert Fones

www.olgakorpergallery.com



Support of the Toronto Society of Architects is gratefully acknowledged.