Oakville Galleries announces its summer exhibition Rogue Planet by German artist duo Hedda Roman, opening on Saturday, June 22. Following the opening is our Summer Party and the first program of Sunset Kino, Canadaβs only outdoor, avant-garde film festival.
Hedda Roman: Rogue Planet
At Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square, Oakville Galleries
June 22βSeptember 28 2024
Exhibition opening events: Saturday, June 22nd, 2024
2β5pm: exhibition opening, Centennial Square
3β6pm: exhibition Reception and Remarks at Gairloch Gardens
6β10pm: Summer Party & Sunset Kino in Gairloch Gardens
Hedda Roman will be in attendance.
All are welcome. All events are free. Join the Art Bus!
The exhibition Rogue Planet by Hedda Roman, explores the complexities of fictional biography, origin, and identity through AI technologies. Central to this exhibition is Oldboy, an avatar and Latent Space Traveller, whose poetic dialogues bridge digital realms with reality. Oldboy’s existence challenges more traditional concepts of origin and identity, reflecting the transformative impact of digital technologies and AI on our understanding of selfhood.
The exhibition invites visitors to reconsider identity in the context of digital narratives and essentialism, and prompts a reflection on how machine learning and digital technologies shape, distort, and reconstruct our perceptions of identity and reality. Ultimately Rogue Planet encourages deeper contemplation on the influence of digitalization on identity as well as the authenticity of our personal and collective stories.
Hedda Roman is a DΓΌsseldorf-based artist mesh composed of Hedda Schattanik and Roman Szczesny. Interweaving cinematographic elements with surreal animation, literature, drama, sculpture, photography, and drawing, they create, among others, immersive video installations as well as computer-generated images. Solo exhibitions include Sies + HΓΆke, DΓΌsseldorf (2023, 2021), Salzburger Kunstverein, (2023), Kunstverein fΓΌr die Rheinlande und Westfalen, DΓΌsseldorf (2021), Sammlung Philara, DΓΌsseldorf (2019), Julia Stoschek Collection, Studio 54, DΓΌsseldorf (2019), Insel Hombroich, Neuss (2018), COMA Gallery, Sydney (2018).
Hedda Roman are also Oakville Galleriesβ first artists-in-residence for 2024. This unique artist residency and apartment is located at Gairloch Gardens, one of the region’s most beautiful parks.
Special thanks to Goethe-Institut Toronto for supporting this exhibition & residency.
Sunset Kino
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens
June 22, 2024βJuly 11, 2024
Sunset Kino is Canada’s only outdoor, avant-garde film festival. Founded by SΓ©amus Kealy in Austria in 2017, this festival continues now at Oakville Galleries. Introduced by the programmers and commencing at sunset, audiences experience a curated program of films and videos by Canadian and international artists.
This year’s theme, βEverything is a Lie,” complements the summer exhibition by Hedda Roman. The program explores narratives that inform our current world, encouraging deeper consideration of the influence of digitalization on identity and the authenticity of our personal and collective stories. The program thus ventures into themes of truth and fiction; reality and virtuality; distortion and essentialism; disinformation, propaganda and representation; as well as how art, film, ideas and politics all intersect in a rapidly changing world.
Program
Saturday, June 22, 8:30pm
Films by Catherina Cramer, Daphne Fietz, Fynn Ribbeck, and Silke SchΓΆnfeld
Programmed by Hedda Roman
Thursday, June 27, 8:30pm
Films by Aideen Barry
Programmed by SΓ©amus Kealy
Thursday, July 4, 8:30pm
Films by Rehab Nazzal, Ali Kazimi, Jayce Salloum, and Sanaz Sohrabi
Programmed by Faisal Anwar & Tazeen Qayyum
Thursday, July 11, 8:30pm
Films by Adrian Paci
Programmed by SΓ©amus Kealy
Oakville Galleries operates with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario, and the Corporation of the Town of Oakville, along with individual, corporate, and foundation partners.
For more information, visit oakvillegalleries.com
