The Apartment
Projects
Luis Jacob and Noam Gonick.
November 2007 - January 2008
The Apartment is pleased to announce an exhibition collaborative work from Luis Jacob and Noam Gonick. A private view and reception will take place on Sun, Nov 25th from 4 to 8pm. Please join us for this special event.
Luis Jacob and Noam Gonick’s video installation Wildflowers of Manitoba, which was commissioned for the 2007 Montreal Biennial, is a hallucinatory vision of nude boy-folk exploring the splendors of the Canadian Prairies. This project, and the subsequent photo edition and print multiple presented in this exhibition, revolve around a notion of Utopia as a blissful, sensual — and sexual — return to the land. These on-location shots imagine a scenario echoing late 60s counter-culture, with its widespread experimental communitarianism, environmentalism, and sexual liberation. Luis Jacob participated this summer in documenta 12, Kassel, Germany and an exhibition currently on view at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, UBC. Noam Gonick has produced many award winning films including the feature length works Hey Happy and Stryker which was exhibited this year at MoMA (New York). His is currently working on a sitcom, which he authored, for Showcase.
This exhibition will be available for viewing by appointment from Nov 26th to January 15.
