OPAQUE ARCHITECTURES

By Adam Gill

In Opaque Architectures, Toronto-based artist Jaime Angelopoulos assembles an exhibition of works on paper and sculptures that gesture towards the artist’s personal narratives through processes of abstraction. Angelopoulos draws from a number of sources including mythology, pop culture, current events and our contemporary social climate. These references are simultaneously concealed and disclosed by extension of the artist’s subjectivity.

While the impulse towards abstraction produces a shrouding distance between viewer and subjective meaning, the indication of gestural marks and the touch of the body effectively collapse this distance. Such an erratic arrangement is nevertheless productive. For in only suggesting her motivations as producer, Angelopoulos allows her artwork to function as a site for the identifications and projections of others. Thus her practice complexly approaches the workings of empathy, touching on the affective territories of spectators and evoking emotions ranging from melancholy to joy.