LUMIR HLADIK – THE GREAT WHITE, January 18-20, 2014
Elements used: vintage bedpan filled with milk, handmade silk flower girl dress (9 month), burled pine trunk from a forest fire near Timmins, Ontario; grouse feathers and gauze. ‘The Great White’ is the second installation piece of Lumir Hladik presented by corridor213, following the display of ‘White is Good’ (September 6-9, 2013). Similar to his first “White” exhibit, the artist dives into the ambiguity of associations connected to the colour “white”: a never used flower dress turns into an unfulfilled destiny wish. A never consumed hunter’s pride, limp and disintegrating is suspended in time. Innocence morphs into lost limbs in futile wars and wasted young milk fills up an elegant symbol of vulnerability and shame. As part of the VANITAS series, this new installation is produced out of “treated” ready-mades, natural elements and objects scavenged from multitude of sites and shops around the province of Ontario. Dark and intelligent, Lumir’s response to the notions of entitlement, guilt and shame points to a larger set of dilemmas that never ceased plaguing our world.
