THE COVID ROLLS - The Drake
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    THE COVID ROLLS FINNISAGE

    • Thu Mar 9th @ 6PM_9PM
    • The Drake Hotel
    • All Ages
    • FREE

    In partnership with Scotiabank Contact Festival and artist Dzesika Devic, we invite you to join us at The Drake Hotel on Thursday, March 9 for the finissage of Devic's latest exhibition, The Covid Rolls. Q+A with art curator Ashley Mulvihill and Dzesika Devic followed by light refreshments.

    About the exhibition:

    The start of the lockdown brought kids home from school, while people bought bouquets of flowers and dodged each other on sidewalks. Shops were closed, and there was a great sense of “empty” on the streets of Toronto.

    Dzesika Devic’s work found a new focus: exploring the tangible and abstract of this intriguing, yet strange, alternate world. This series, shot entirely on film, shows singular people in empty vicinities, provoking a sense of eeriness and intimacy in the age of Covid-19.

    Unable to get physically close to other people, Devic shifted to using a 90mm lens to capture the dynamics of small interactions (or lack thereof) that become amplified by their context. Experience Devic’s sense of disconnect with the city as she explored it not as a resident, but as a curious traveller.