You’re invited to the opening reception of A Hope to Wish For on A Star by Erika Germain March 7, 7-9pm!⁠
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A Hope to Wish For on a Star continues an ever-adventuring process of translation, where invented systems correlate colours to letters of the alphabet to re-write textual sources into a visual space. Every letter A is a stroke of cadmium red, every letter B cobalt blue, and so on, until what was once a written text is relocated to a new dialect of abstraction and material. This movement of meaning from one language to another offers the painted space as a field of world-building, with surfaces taking on the roles of new and unknown cultures to house these invented lexicons. The contexts created around these translated writings—backgrounds of accumulated small brushstrokes—perform the labour of a devotional search for understanding. ⁠
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⁠Erika invites you to participate in a ritual of exchange. Consider in advance an offering of love, hate, fear, or hope.⁠ Writing materials will be supplied in the exhibit to create your offering and you are also welcome to bring meaningful objects that symbolize a love, a hate, a fear, or a hope to give as an offering.⁠