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VISUAL ART
Kelly Jazvac and Kelly Wood
The dissemination of information, how we are seduced, the material detritus left behind from such seduction and the infrastructure of life that supports contemporary luxury all come to mind when viewing "Impel with Puffs." This exhibition, presented by Diaz Contemporary in Toronto, featured two solo exhibitions that also created a dialogue between the London, Ontario-based artists, sculptor Kelly Jazvac and photographer Kelly Wood. The two bodies of work-Jazvacs's salvaged vinyl sculpture and wall works and Wood's photographs addressing issues of pollution-created a space where ideas concerning the afterlife of human presence were brought to the forefront. Those concerns, specifically ones of environmental waste and media, leave traces, and these traces are then picked up by Wood and Jazvac, becoming the medium with which this work-and this exhibition-was produced.
Kelly Jazvac has been working with salvaged vinyl from advertising for several years-bending, folding and laminating large shards to form her sculptures. However, most of these works are barely sculpture in the traditional idea of a structure existing in three-dimensional space. Laminated together and delivered to us in FedEx form from some otherworldly place or recess of the mind, these compressed planes create a well sealed, albeit slightly tampered-with packaging of all that surrounds us. Jazvac brings us our world in a two-dimensional wrap format creating a new and hollow third dimension. This wrapping slumps into its forms, questioning both a failure of sculptural integrity and a prostration of two-dimensional forms-paper,...