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These drawings are sourced from social media: Facebook, email and the rest of daily disposable digital culture. These images circulate as mere nothingness, a split second in the endless twitter. I draw the images of friends that strike me, that declare a rich inner world amidst the nothingness of digital chatter. Then, I give the drawing to the original source, and insert a moment of gift culture into that of the commodity form, and reinforce the haptic nature of lived experience.
Exhibitions
2011 Medium Massage 2.0: an infinite inventory. Contact Gallery, Toronto Nov 5 – Dec 3
YZO gratefully acknowledges the support of the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council for their generous support of Medium Massage 2.0