Modern Fuel presents a recent body of work by Toronto-based artist Susy Oliveira, who fuses her interest in sculpture and photography with the varied forms and fauna of a garden. The exhibition is titled after a passage from Jean Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers, eliciting the poetry, passion and entropy found in Oliveira’s multifaceted fictional landscapes. Her simulated garden exaggerates the unnatural quality of most gardens and green spaces, drawing our attention to the increasingly manufactured environments that we occupy and their effect on the commodification of our desires, both real and imagined. This body of work has recently been exhibited at the PLATFORM Centre for Photography + Digital Arts in Winnipeg (2010), The New Gallery in Calgary (2010), The Khyber in Halifax (2010), and the University of Waterloo Art Gallery (2011).
You can see Susy’s work at Modern Fuel until April 23rd.
