Wandering the Forest opens at Harbourfront Centre Architecture Gallery on June 17th
David Lieberman Architect with Fiona Lim Tung

Forests beckon and seduce with promises of verdant pleasures.  They are also dark and foreboding, and yet we are continually drawn to an imagined, if not real, sense of nature.  The constructed landscapes of the contemporary city offer many of the pleasures previously associated with our cultural understandings of forest and garden.  The vertical elements are like musical scores orchestrating movement through the spaces of the city, spaces of intimacy and spaces of congregation.  The dappled light of the canopies provide punctuation and further the subtleties of occupation, allowing for pause in the shade or revealing in the filtered light of the sun.

The installation is supplemented by two films - The Aeolian Forest and The Alchemist’s Garden - and is part of a group exhibition “New City Landscape” including the work of David Lieberman Architect, the Department of Unusual Certainties, Daniels colleagues Khoury Levit Fong, and artist, Jason van Horne.

The exhibition runs until September 18, 2011.

For more information, see: Harbourfront Centre