Contingent Bodies

March 3 – April 15, 2017
Exhibition, Artist Talk, Opening/Launch

About the Program

Brigitta Kocsis’ paintings blend realism, illustration, and expressive painterly gestures in a chaotic and visually charged landscape. Her series, Contingent Bodies, focuses on the representation of bodies in transformation – both organic and unfamiliar. The painting’s surface is used to transform energies and refabricate the body with suggestions of contamination, connectivity, and displacement, reflecting Kocsis’ cultural history as a Hungarian, Romany, and Canadian. Fragmented bodies emerge in the play between abstraction and figuration, embedded in perpetual rootlessness, containing exile and otherness within themselves. These polymorphic figures confront sexual and cultural categorization, recasting the body as part imaginary and part construct. Exploring notions of the cyborg and the prosthetic, these figures exist between the human and post-human, biotechnological and sexualized bodies, and the fashion industry and anime. An artist talk was presented on March 4, 2017.

Artist

Brigitta Kocsis

Curator

Glenn Alteen

Credits

Accounting: Linda Gorrie
Administration: Meagan Kus
Archives: Dan Pon
Communications: Tarah Hogue
Gallery Assistant: Hedy Wood
Grantwriting Support: Mary Ann Anderson
Installation/Preparator: Charlie Stableford
Photography: Dennis Ha
Programming: Glenn Alteen, Vanessa Kwan, Tarah Hogue

Identifier

2017.0303 CON

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

grunt gallery (second location)
116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca