Photo Credit: Felipe Bracelis Photo Credit: Felipe Bracelis Photo Credit: Felipe Bracelis Photo Credit: Felipe Bracelis Photo Credit: Felipe Bracelis Photo Credit: Felipe Bracelis Photo Credit: Felipe Bracelis Photo Credit: Felipe Bracelis Photo Credit: Felipe Bracelis Despues del Amor, (2013), 40 x 40 cm. / 16 x 16 inches, Hilo sobre Tela / Threads on Fabric, $1000 Ophelia, 28 x 28 inches, Oil on canvas, 2013, $1300 Almost There, 12 x 12 inches, Oil on Canvas, 2013. $650 216 (2012), Spray paint and Varnish on PVC, 23 x 25 inches, US$1500 176 (2012), Enamel and Varnish on PVC, 23 x 25 inches, US$1500 S/T, (2013), 30 x 40 cm. / 16 x 12 inches, Acrilico sobre Tela. / Acrylic on Canvas, $1970 Poema de Muerte (2013), Latex & Ink on Canvas, 75 x 61 inches, US$1300 From the Series Puestas en Escena, (2000), 40 x 40 cm. / 16 x 16 inches, Papel Algodón, Papel Fotografico Analogo Fibra. / Cotton Paper, Photographic Paper. Analog Fiber, $700 Untitled, from the series Resilencia, Photograph, (2012), Edition 1 out of 5, 8 x 30 inches, $350 Causa, Sintoma, Trastorno, (2013) 40 x 30 cm. / 16 x 12 inches, Tinta sobre Lamina Acrilica. / Ink on Acrylic Sheet, $400 Ilusiones, Mixed Media on Canvas, 80 x 150 cm, 2009, $1200 La muerte es una ventana blanca (Death is a white window), (2013), 40 x 24 cm. / 16 x 9,5 inches, Digital photography, acrylic sheet and latex paint, SOLD Coyote, Photograph,16 x 20 inches, 2013, $800 Garden of Good & Evil, Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 12 x 12 inches, 2013, $600 Waterbearer, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40 inches, SOLD Laoconte sin Pelo, (2011), 40 x 30 cm. / 15 x 12 inches, Oleo, Acrilico y Lapiz sobre Carton Entelado. / Oil, Acrylic and Pencil on Cardboard Canvas, $600 And When She Passed, The Message Was Sent, Oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches, 2013, $450, SOLD Metamorphosis 1, Collage with Found Images, Approx. 15 x 20 cm, 2012, $500 Untitled, Oil on Canvas, 36 x 48 inches (91cm x 122cm) 2013, $1000 Departure, Oil on canvas, 8 x 8 inches, 2013, USD$800 Series 'The Nature of Bestiary', Oil on Canvas, 60 x 80 inches, $8000 Cape, Oil on canvas, 60 cm diameter, 2013, Private Collection. The Emperor, Oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches, 2013, SOLD The Bird and the Wolf, 2012. Photograph o/ paper Baryta Harman/Hahnemühle 325gr. Unique P/A (proof of artist). signed on the back. 2013, 30 x 30cm, $1500 4 Dimensiones Del Ego, 2013, 40 x 30 cm. / 15 x 12 inches, Acuarela sobre Papel / Watercolor on Paper, $600 Bestiario-Mosca Muerta, (2012), 50 x 39 cm. / 20 x 15 inches, Fotografia./ Photograph, $400 each Bestiario- Vibora, (2012), 50 x 39 cm. / 20 x 15 inches, Fotografia./ Photograph, $400 each Bestiario- Cerda, (2012), 50 x 39 cm. / 20 x 15 inches, Fotografia./ Photograph, $400 each 185: Mujer con Abanico, (2012), 33,5 x 24 cm. / 12,5 x 9,5 inches, Barniz y Esmalte sobreimagen encontrada. / Varnish and Enamel on Found Image, $675, SOLD LIVE PERFORMANCE ART in Ottawa, by Aleks Bartosik. ANTONIO BECERRO, Artista Visual y Gestor Cultural, Director de Centro Experimental Perrera Arte The World's Oldest Mummies Found in the Desserts in the North of Chile

September 2013

La Petite Mort Gallery & YESSR present
POST MORTEM / International Group Exhibit

September 6 – 29, 2013
Vernissage Friday September 6 / 7-10pm
@ La Petite Mort Gallery / Ottawa, Canada
Workshop: www.lapetitemortgallery.com/sept-7/>
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November 1 – 30, 2013
Vernissage Friday November 1 / 8 – 11pm
@ La Perrera / Santiago, Chile
Workshop:www.lapetitemortgallery.com/santigo-chile-2013/

Co-curator Felipe Bracelis will be present on opening night, all the way from Santiago, Chile.

LIVE Performance Art by Toronto artist, Aleks Bartosik.

Proudly sponsored by SPAO (School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa
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STATEMENT:
The Post Mortem concept is conventionally associated with a mournful imagery, corresponding to an idea of uncertainty towards a dimension that is still unknown to us. The after death is not necessarily a tragic element once the origin of its condition is dissected and understood. In our own living bodies, we can extend our experiential and spiritual limits if we assume a loss of the physical self and meditate on what this loss could unveil.
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Post Mortem / YESSR6 reviews the concept of death, questioning its meaning, to redefine it as a portal or as a beginning of a new process, as parallel reality or even as the lasting end of the sense experience. That the selected works position dead, or seemingly dying subjects in the light, and to-be-viewed provides for them a new kind of life-energy. Although many of the works can be read as mementos, they go further in revealing the passage of fragments of memory through space and time – not simply through disembodied remembrances, but through continual and limitless acts of psychic restoration and re-creation. As such, the exhibition operates with sensitivity to how the post mortem can find presence in absence, as both an offering as withdrawal.
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In this way, we can read ‘death’ through subjects that are not dead, gone or even transitioning. The post mortem, then, is sensed or read intuitively through our lived bodies through the positioning of the given subject. Although we invariably carry within ourselves the weight of systematic, culturally produced ‘death signifiers’ and meaning systems, our readings of these works rest more on an acquired personal sensitivity and emotional intelligence to form and incident. Through vimax online semenax perfect work this lens we become conscious of the ‘life’ versus ‘death’ binary, and in turn, come to measure the instability and impossibility in holding between them an imaginary sense of distance.

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CO-CURATOR FELIPE BRACELIS’ SELECTION OF ARTISTS:
* Adolfo Bimer, Santiago, Chile
* Lautaro Veloso, Santiago, Chile
* Gabriela Rivera, Santiago, Chile
* Rosita Beas Capllonch, Santiago, Chile
* Jose Badia Berner, Santiago, Chile
* Jose Pedro Godoy, Santiago, Chile
* Felipe Bracelis, Santiago, Chile
* Antonio Becerro / Jorge Aceituno, Santiago, Chile
* Ivan Olivares Laferte, Santiago, Chile
* Cristobal Traslaviña, Santiago, Chile

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CO-CURATOR GUY BERUBE’S SELECTION OF ARTISTS:
* Peter Shmelzer, Ottawa, Canada
* Ashkan Honarvar, Iran
* Francois Escalmel, Montreal, Canada
* Derek Stefanuk, Montreal, Canada
* Aleks Bartosik, Toronto, Canada
* Saddo, Bucharest, Romania
* Matthew Stradling, London, England
* Gonzalo Bénard, Paris, France
* Whitney Lewis-Smith, Ottawa, Canada
* Andrew Salgado, London, England

& special guests: Andrew Moncrief (Montreal, Canada), Kara William (Montreal, Canada) & Diego Loza Carbajal (Mexico City, Mexico)

 

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LIVE PERFORMANCE:
Aleks Bartosik – drawing/painting performance
Into the Light (2013)
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Aleks Bartosik artistic practice focuses on the human form, where she combines drawing elements with painting, performance, sculpture, installation, and film/video. Bartosik explores the boundaries between the real and the imaginary and investigate one’s ability and willingness to imagine, pretend, dream and suspend disbelief.
For the Post Mortem exhibition Bartosik will further investigate the realms that she creates and portrays within her two-dimensional work, this time through a site-specific performance. Into the Light, a performance specifically created for this exhibition, Bartosik will draw and paint on the suspended sheets of paper from the gallery’s ceiling. The hung paper will resemble a spiral-like structure or a maze where the viewer will be able to enter or walk through it once the performance is finished. Bartosik will focus on creating drawings that will narrate the paper structure while giving the viewer a more intimate glance at the work when within it. Into the Light will imitate the imagined tunnel that each being takes before passing, or rather, as they are ‘passing.’
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Thank you,
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Guy Berube
Gallery Director
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