The Digital Arts Resource Centre (DARC), is thrilled to announce it’s latest endeavour: the LED Exhibition. This exhibition allows our diverse community of members to showcase their digital artwork on our impressive 7ft LED display. As we invite submissions, we aspire to inspire passersby of the Arts Court building and affirm our shared commitment to fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and supportive artistic community.
This month’s Exhibition features works by Madisyn Dell and Mana Rouholamini.
Ouroboros by Madisyn Dell
“In recent years, I have been using painting and filmmaking to explore themes of interconnectivity between destruction/death and rebirth/creation, and external and internal landscapes. I really aim for my art to excite new or deeper feelings that might bring you into a mindset of curiosity and possibility.”
Madi grew up in Ottawa and has lived between Ottawa and Montreal. They studied at Concordia University and Algonquin College in the disciplines of Drawing, Painting, Concept Art, and Animation. Always having been inspired by film, their creative pursuits in the fine arts have led them into film animation in more recent years. Their work has been featured internationally at film festivals, notably the Ottawa International Animation Festival, and at local art shows, as well as local collaborative projects
# Hide Unhide – layers by Mana Rouholamini
“The inspiration for the work comes from a quote that I heard many years ago in a theatre in Tehran. The play, Un homme seul by Armand Gatti, was about the meaning of birth and suggested that birth or a birthday is not the date that is recorded in a civil status document such as the birth certificate, but that “birth is the moment we awaken to the consciousness of our existence amongst others and decide what course our life should take.
There is an invitation in the quote that is still relevant to this day: the invitation to re-examine our collective being and our individual consciousness. This work is part of my reflection on this re-examination. #hideUnhide-layers explores the hypocrisy and what is hidden behind celebrations such as the Canadian Confederation.”
Mana Rouholamini (Elle – she – her) explores the notions of identity, language and the meaning of words through the prism of different languages using installa- tions, drawings, in situ actions, prints, artist books and digital prints. Her work is nourished by literature, proverbs, traditions and folkloric stories that she tries to actualize and contextualize. She has received her BFA in Visual Communication from Azad University in Tehran and her MFA in Visual Arts from York University. Some exhibitions include:… de patience, Karsh Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Marcher le texte, Ottawa School of Art, Orléans, War, recycled, Ria Project Room, Ottawa, Create this revolution, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Print Culture, Galerie Annexe (Ottawa Art Gallery) and Possible Worlds, Partager le vœu à Granby, 3e impérial, centre d’essai en art actuel, Granby, Québec.
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