In I’ll Be Your Mirror, John Marriott‘s first solo exhibition at MKG127, he presents recent sculptures, collages, paintings and installation work. These artworks take familiar iconography, objects and ideas and rework them, intervening in the appearances and meaning that we identify them with as we fit them purposefully into our world-views. In doing so these various projects disrupt and probe the role of recognition and interpretation in our processes of awareness and understanding. John Marriott is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. His artworks have been featured in exhibitions and festivals nationally and internationally in venues such as The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto), The Impakt Festival (Utrecht), 25HRS (Barcelona), The Rotterdam International Festival of Film and Video (Rotterdam), The 7a*lld International Festival of Performance Art (Toronto), The ZKM (Karlsruhe), The Toronto Sculpture Garden (Toronto), Dazibao (Montréal) and Optica (Montréal). His works are included in private and public collections including those of BMO, The Art Gallery of Ontario and The National Gallery of Canada. His critical writing and reviews have been published in books, catalogues and magazines including Canadian Art, C Magazine, Mix Magazine and Prefix Photo. I’ll Be Your Mirror Reviews |