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Thinking Inside the Box

Christopher Flower – 2009

Thinking Inside the Box features the video installations of Montreal-based artist Christopher Flower. Flower’s video installations explore interactivity and incorporate installation with the mechanical processes and spatial complexities of kinetic sculpture.

Using both digital and analog technologies, Flower links DIY/hack invention with new media practices. An opening reception with the artist in attendance will be held at 7pm on Saturday the 17th of January, 2009. Come out to celebrate the start of our new year of exciting programming.

Instead of ignoring the box that contains video content, Christopher Flower takes this frame that limits the image as the subject of the work presented in Modern Fuel’s latest exhibition. Thinking Inside the Box includes formal meditations that re-imagine traditional modes and genres of representation, such as the still life imagery referenced in Spinning LCD Still Life (2007). Flower’s work is perhaps best typified by his Box Video series (2002 – 2007) which references formalism, abstraction, conceptualism, and cinema, and showcases an illusionism exposed through the use of lowly everyday materials like rocks, plastic cups, bagels, googly eyes, light bulbs, cat toys, eggs, and beer. Flower’s interactive video installations engage his viewers in limitless games, bounded only by a box wherein the motivation for participating stems from a desire to play for the sake of playing and creating one’s own rules.

About the Artist

Christopher Flower

 

Christopher Flower draws from a variety of sources in his practice: conceptual art, illusionism, do-it-yourself invention, and the everyday. Recent exhibitions include: YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto, ON), Eyelevel Gallery (Halifax, NS), Durham Art Gallery (Durham, ON) Gallery 101 (Ottawa, ON), and Video Pool (Winnipeg, MB). Flower gratefully thanks the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support

 

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