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Predators & Prey.(Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation)
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
In Predators & Prey Toronto-based curator and collector Ydessa Hendeles once again presents her unique curatorial vision. Hendeles offers a challenging and highly intellectual experience to attentive viewers willing to "move from the outside world and fall into a dream space," as suggested in her Notes on the Exhibition.
The exhibition's title-cum-theme, Predators & Prey, presents a new variation on Hendeles' ongoing interest in partnership as a mode of curating as well as a manner of interacting with others and with the world. Hendeles focusses on one aspect of human interaction, exploring the dangerous power relations evoked when one side has the upper hand. The theme is not illustrated in the exhibition but rather comes to life metaphorically through the viewer's engagement with the objects on display and the curatorial logic. The interaction is of twofold nature: we are always simultaneously the predator and the prey.
For example, immediately inside the exhibition space the first two objects on display are a porcelain tea service ornamented with gold swastikas held by a predatory Nazi eagle and a pair of gold stiletto-heel Gucci shoes. When the two are coupled, the shoes lose their status as objects of desire. Instead, their impracticality is heightened by the swastika's evocation of danger. (Will we be able to escape our predators when wearing these shoes?) Also, due to the feeling that viewing and understanding the exhibition is about "getting" the curator--a game of catch-me-if-you-can--the theme of predators and prey functions as a metaphor for the relationship between viewer and curator.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Predators & Prey.(Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation)