Cerve
Rhonda Wepple
Michael Flaherty
Dates Showing: July 21st - July 18th, 2003
Rhonda Weppler uses only fragile surfaces to reference the domestic objects she explores through her sculptural works. These traditionally solid forms becme performative as their very material forces them to "twist, sag and mutate" over time. Weppler questions the idea of home where what is imagined to be stable fails and unravels before the viewer. Wepple'r sculptures deconstruct the domestic narrative in their "pathetic imitation" of mundane household objects.
In Cerve, local ceramicist, Michael Flaherty uses pottery forms and their inherent utilitarianism as a metaphor for the political and economic activities of humankind. Creating new motorized, static and mobile sculptures made from ceramics and found materials, Flaherty will explore a central theme around the depiction of human body as machine. In approaching this theme through works of pottery and ceramic sculpture, Flaherty reasserts the notion that modern craft is intrinsically deviant, revolutionary and activist.
Rhonda Weppler lives and works in Vancouver. Michael Flaherty lives and works in St. John's.
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