KATRINA JURJANS

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Composed of members Alexia Hovis, Niloufar Jalal-Zadeh, Katrina Jurjans and Mehdi Latifian, elsewhere is a Tkaronto/Toronto-based, emerging artist collective that brings together independent practices in the fields of painting, film, installation, and architecture to interrogate the intersections of space, image, narrative, and emotion. Materially working through reflections of the built environment, interior and political landscapes and human perception, each work is approached as the temporary coming together of many different parts.

PROJECTS

Loom is an immersive, multi-media installation that responds to concepts of fragmentation, impermanence, memory and dislocation. An iterative project, loom most recently took over the site of Holy Trinity Church for a single night for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. Merging distorted, echoing soundscapes connected to the church’s past with video projections of personal documentation, animated graphics and found material, this iteration of loom became imbued with ritualistic feeling, creating an atmosphere that fluctuated between perceived, recognizable realities and dream-like, otherworldly realms.

Crack in the Case is a multimedia installation that frames and reframes an unfolding dialogue in perpetual transformation. A tapestry of intersecting ribbon screens capture and fragment a two-channel broadcast in constant conversation, woven from personal videos, hand drawn animations and found footage. Assembled into a narrative pendulum that swings back and forth through cycles of harmony and dissonance, the entangled projections fuse with a soundscape built upon morphing voices that circle past each other, creating patterns of interference and synchronicity. As endings morph into beginnings and boundaries emerge and disappear, the case withholds and reveals the ever-shifting dimensions of the dialogue on display.