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Blouin Division is pleased to invite you to an artist talk with Amanda Boulos on her new body of work in the exhibition Will o’ Wisp, on view in the Toronto project space. This talk will coincide with the final day to view the exhibition.Amanda Boulos is a Mississauga-born Palestinian artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Engaging with personal and national oral narratives from Palestine, Lebanon, and Canada, Boulos explores how the Palestinian Diaspora is constantly undergoing what philosopher Catherine Malabou calls “unprecedented metamorphosis,” a metamorphosis that is capable of abandoning a burdened body or identity to allow a new form to emerge. Throughout her painting practice, Boulos abstracts and transforms oral narratives by fragmenting their environments, allegorizing their fates, and re-envisioning them into symbolic representations. Her paintings are an investigation into and reflection on the plasticity of her, her family’s, and her people’s perceptions, histories, and lives.
In Will o’ Wisp, Boulos also presents a series of ‘smash paintings’ on paper. These smash paintings replicate the intention of a Rorschach test, where the symmetrical image prompts an invitation for interpretation. Boulos takes images she’s familiar with and ‘smashes’ them, skewing the original subject, and doubling it, to reveal a new transformed image and with it fresh, even lucid visual interpretations.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Arsenal Toronto, Toronto, Canada