November 27 2025 to January 10 2026
Engaging material process as metaphor at the European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC) residency in the Netherlands this summer Jeremy Laing turned to mould-making as a way of exploring and disrupting the normative and hierarchical structures of the ideal form and its faithful replication.
Conceptually the mould is a stand-in for the predetermined and determining conditions of social formations and identities—the structures we defer to and grow into or divert from and expand or perhaps embody in a more complex way that is both accepting and resisting identifying and disidentifying. Indeed rather than representing a lack or hard limit the contours of a mould’s void provide the basis for innumerable elaborations. Like our lives and identities shaping and being shaped in concurrent mutuality Laing’s new work emerges from a circular pattern of citation and manifestation. No self no other; no master no replica.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Susan Hobbs Gallery, 137 Tecumseth St., Toronto, ON M6J 2H2, Canada
