Cobla – Heidi Kerr

Press Release
The Maillardville Cultural Appreciation Society is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent work by Heidi Kerr. Through uniting multiple materials under a singular aesthetic program, Kerr’s sculptures animate a discussion on the parallels of decor and art. While Kerr’s meticulous assemblages of found materials and original objects depict unexpected intersections of distant matter, her production surreptitiously addresses specific histories of vernacular creation such as craft and hobbyist traditions.This relationship breeds an investigation of not only materials but also the role of scale in the history and contemporary field of sculpture. In this upcoming exhibition she will be altering the exhibition space with the creation unique platform for a series of sculptures along with producing a new set of photographic works.

All Kinds of Everything
Duchamp once described becoming an artist as the choice to exist as a societal reject. To make that decision meant life not simply in opposition to society, but outside of it, as a settler in a place where laws were more malleable and seemed to be yearning for modification. Built into this choice was a dissatisfaction of the present, not a rejection, but an impulse to create a different set of circumstances. Here a person could describe their own conditions of existence and create a language for communication. A world constructed in parallel with parts from that which was being abandoned.
Of course this changes. Art is less a refuge, or a space for transgression, or a home for conscientious dissenters at the present. The boundaries between A and B are not so clearly drawn and so it seems there is rarely a place for hard separation. While you readily reveal the history of each piece in your world, to see them without explanation they seem to naturally fit together as though they were always intended to be so. The disintegration of boundaries, as the objects you’ve collected are brought together is not an anarchic attempt that ends with the grey paste of meaning, but instead creates sensuous connections forged between unlikely lovers. Objects somehow show, through sensitivity and focus how to look at a world beyond the moment in a white room.