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In Over Our Heads

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Franc Gallery is pleased to present In Over Our Heads an exhibition curated by Jocelyne Junker with work from emerging artists Lacie Burning, Rydel Cerezo, Julia Cundari, Jack Kenna, Serisa Fitz-James, Kotryna Buruckaitė, and Marika Vandekraats. All brought together through the expressions of the pressures that both hold down and drive them.

Tension forms individualistically, in the shoulders, in the mind. Curious in the expression of tension considered in syllepsis, allowing the joining of the literal and metaphorical, this relation unfolds in visual and conceptual elements of each artist’s work. Examining the presence of tension in the quotidian, whether it be through an overabundance of responsibilities, scarcity of resources, or cultural despondency, we see how personalized tension embodies the forms in which each individual seeks to express it.

Lacie Burning is a Mohawk and Onondaga multi-disciplinary artist born in Brantford and raised on Six Nations of the Grand River reserve. They work in photography, video, installation, and sculpture with a focus on Indigenous Art and Photography. Having come from a politically and culturally grounded upbringing, their work focuses on the politics of Indigeneity and identity from a Haudenosaunee perspective. They are on the 2020 shortlist for the Lind Prize at the Polygon Gallery and have exhibited in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, and Surrey. 

Rydel Cerezo is a Filipino-born visual artist based in Vancouver, Canada. Cerezo’s work investigates the space between sexuality and religion, race and beauty, and identity and culture. He is interested in how these disparate themes metaphorically and visually coalesce. In the past year, he has exhibited at Aperture Foundation’s Summer Open Exhibition “Delirious Cities” (New York), Vogue Italia’s “Photo Vogue Festival: A Glitch in the System” (Milan), and has recently been shortlisted for the upcoming The Lind Prize 2020 Exhibition. 

Julia is an artist, writer, and witness. Her work investigates emotional embodiment, curiosities of deep ecology and plant intelligence, as well as socio-cultural anxieties surrounding trauma and the unknown. She holds an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.​

Serisa Fitz-James is a filipinx-canadian artist. Through ceramic sculpture, drawing, animation and performance Serisa’s work explores themes of memory, family, place, and identity.  

Jack Kenna (b. 1994 in Durango, Colorado, USA) works primarily with drawing, painting, and ceramic sculpture. His artworks revolve around objects of subjective, sentimental value and the feedback loops created by working between 2- and 3-D media combined with found images, objects, and text. Jack co-founded Ground Floor Art Centre in 2018, where he works collaboratively toward creating exhibition opportunities for other early emerging artists and young people, and is currently an artist in residence with the Vancouver School Board. 

Marika Vandekraats (b. 1994) is an artist currently based in her home city of Vancouver. She previously lived in Rotterdam, NL, where she began experimentation into performances and site-specific based work. Her process takes shape through composing works made of malleable matter, considering how the work will act when exposed to time, heat, water, or other agents of transformation. Synchronizing with materials, she considers how these elements are related to human temporalities. By doing this, she also questions the assumed actions and expectations of objects, pushing such expectations until the objects exhaust their own functions and begin to produce something anew.

Kotryna Buruckaitė (b. 1992) - is a Lithuanian filmmaker currently based in Amsterdam. In her work she investigates humans in atypical settings. Fascinated by the pleasure of observing others, Kotryna investigates one’s interpersonal relationship with the world. With a touch of fiction and absurdity to it, she questions the worlds given “set of rules’’ and the illogical nature of the man. Her work deviates between enhancing casual anomalies and understanding one’s feelings: a healthy suspicion that things are not the way they’re supposed to be and the inner motivation to act against (to misbehave).


Franc Gallery operates on the unceded, ancestral and traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples.



Past Exhibitions
Theatre of Painting
Hank Bull

​November 9th - December 14th, 2019
Continuing Dialogues
Glenn Lewis, Keith Donovan, Michael Morris & Vincent Trasov

​September 28th - October 26th, 2019
Scenery 
Maya Gulin

​July 12th - 22nd, 2019
Shadow Architecture 
Michael Love

​April 11th - May 4th, 2019
Vessels are Never Empty
Dina González Mascaró

March 9th - April 6th, 2019
Alleyways
​Glenn Lewis

February 1st, 2019
Being
Kitty Blandy

November 17th - December 15th, 2018
Ohne Worte (without words)
Vincent Trasov

May 14th - June 17th, 2018
Pool
Ed Spence

April 12th - May 5th, 2018
Borrowed Landscape
Glenn Lewis 

March 1st - 31st, 2018
Grapes
Maggie Boyd

February 2nd - 23rd, 2018
Sponge Setting
Tess Rafael

December 2nd, 2017 - January 6th, 2018
Mistressworks
Angela Grossman 

September 23rd - October 21st, 2017
Whispermarks
Jonathan Syme
May 12th - June 24th, 2017
The Moth and The Flame
Michael Batty and Chris Shier

February 17th - March 18th, 2017
Handmade Handup Handdown not Handout
Glenn Lewis

January 21st - February 11th, 2017
A Beast Salient
Group Show

November 25th - December 17th, 2016
Landscape is a Witness
Todd Tedeschini

October 14th - November 12th, 2016
Between Ideology and Ruin
Mike Love

September 10th - October 8th, 2016
TBH
Group Show

July 1st - August 13th, 2016
An Affection For Life
Katie Huisman 

May 19th - June 11th, 2016
Soft Error
Ed Spence 

April 14th - May 14, 2016
Spectres Of Desire
Karen Zalamea

March 17th - April 9th, 2016
Form Being Foreseen
Glenn Lewis

February 19th - March 6th, 2016

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