Showing at the Karsh-Masson Gallery in Ottawa City Hall is Miles Rufelds‘s You can draw a straight line.
I was impressed with the big plastic tanks, the use of images with yarn & nail showing Canada’s transportation system.
About the exhibition:
In You can draw a straight line, research-based artist Miles Rufelds surveys Canada’s long history of trade, transportation, and resource extraction through a clouded conspiratorial lens.
Mixing detailed analyses and archival traces from Canada’s economic landscape with fictional or speculative narrative threads, this exhibition attempts to grapple with Canada’s role as an economic superpower, and to situate its national colonial projects within a global narrative of expropriation and exploitation.
The exhibition runs until June 10, 2022.
Check out the gallery.