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Thursday, 11 Jan 2024 at 5 pm

Artist Talks: Azza El Siddique and Jenine Marsh

  • Azza El Siddique

    Azza El Siddique (Sudanese, b. 1984) lives and works in New Haven, CT. Known for her large-scale sculptural environments, El Siddique combines steel and ceramic sculptures with ephemeral matter to explore ritual, mortality and memorialization. El Siddique holds an MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design University. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge; Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal; Helena Anrather, New York; and Cooper Cole, Toronto. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at MOCA, Toronto; Gardiner Museum, Toronto; Oakville Galleries, Toronto; Shin Gallery, New York; and Green Hall Gallery, New Haven. She was a Skowhegan resident in 2019 and was a 2022 finalist for the Sobey Art Award.

     

     

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  • Jenine Marsh

    Jenine Marsh (Canadian, b. 1984) is an artist based in Toronto who uses sculpture and installation to explore themes of agency, mortality and value. She uses coins as well as other paraphernalia of exchange through serialized processes of destruction and transformation to cultivate illicit and intimate responses to the shared conditions of end-stage capitalism. Marsh received a BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts, and an MFA from the University of Guelph. Marsh’s work has been exhibited at Cooper Cole, Toronto; Franz Kaka, Toronto; Centre Clark, Montreal; Vie d’ange, Montreal; Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver; Gianni Manhattan, Vienna; Union Pacific, London; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Essex Flowers, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; OSL Contemporary, Oslo; Entrée Gallery; and Lulu, Mexico City. She has been artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts; AiR Bergen at USF Verftet, Bergen; La Datcha, Berlin; Rupert, Vilnius; and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson.

     

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Join artists Azza El Siddique and Jenine Marsh for a conversation about their practices and works in the current exhibition Aporia (Notes to a Medium), followed by the exhibition opening reception.

Jenine Marsh’s three sculptures How to Fulfill a Wish (Bronze, Silver, Gold) (2023) consider social practices converging around the form of a public fountain that at once delivers water to a public and is also a site of symbolic wish-making. The works, in the form of wrapped fountains, include coins, preserved flowers, casts of feet and texts from the socialist newspaper People’s Voice to investigate forms of belief and value. Azza El Siddique’s installation Solar Evocation (2022) considers architectures of transformation and the instability of form to construct a narrative experience of a journey between this life and the next. The work engages a map and texts from the Book of Two Ways – a series of ancient Egyptian maps and spells related to the underworld – to posit an experience that history cannot hold over the course of circular time.

The talks will be followed by the exhibition opening reception – join us.

These talks will be audio-recorded; email us at belkin.gallery@ubc.ca if you are interested in listening to the recording following the event.

 

 

 

 

Image (above): Azza El Siddique, Solar Evocation (detail), 2022. Courtesy of the artist

  • Azza El Siddique

    Azza El Siddique (Sudanese, b. 1984) lives and works in New Haven, CT. Known for her large-scale sculptural environments, El Siddique combines steel and ceramic sculptures with ephemeral matter to explore ritual, mortality and memorialization. El Siddique holds an MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design University. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge; Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal; Helena Anrather, New York; and Cooper Cole, Toronto. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at MOCA, Toronto; Gardiner Museum, Toronto; Oakville Galleries, Toronto; Shin Gallery, New York; and Green Hall Gallery, New Haven. She was a Skowhegan resident in 2019 and was a 2022 finalist for the Sobey Art Award.

     

     

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  • Jenine Marsh

    Jenine Marsh (Canadian, b. 1984) is an artist based in Toronto who uses sculpture and installation to explore themes of agency, mortality and value. She uses coins as well as other paraphernalia of exchange through serialized processes of destruction and transformation to cultivate illicit and intimate responses to the shared conditions of end-stage capitalism. Marsh received a BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts, and an MFA from the University of Guelph. Marsh’s work has been exhibited at Cooper Cole, Toronto; Franz Kaka, Toronto; Centre Clark, Montreal; Vie d’ange, Montreal; Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver; Gianni Manhattan, Vienna; Union Pacific, London; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Essex Flowers, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; OSL Contemporary, Oslo; Entrée Gallery; and Lulu, Mexico City. She has been artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts; AiR Bergen at USF Verftet, Bergen; La Datcha, Berlin; Rupert, Vilnius; and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson.

     

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