Everyday Lighting II

“Lighting is an essential element of everyday life. Like moths to a flame, we are inherently drawn to it. Lighting is beautiful and functional, technical and sculptural. It can simply reduce darkness, but it can be so much more. Everyday Lighting investigates illumination at the intersection of craft, art, sculpture and design.

Through the Artists-in-Residence at Harbourfront Centre’s various forms of illumination are explored through each artist’s interpretations of metal, ceramic, glass and textiles.

Whether it is brightening the dark, adding sparkle, providing comfort, producing reflections and refractions or playing with shadow, each piece addresses the function and beauty of lighting in different ways. Kate Tessier collaborated with the artists, seamlessly incorporating lighting technology into their already impressive bodies of work.

Curated by Kate Tessier.

Part of DesignTO.”

“A light source exists to expose. It reveals flaws, irregularities and many other strange disturbances without hesitation. Cracks in structures are highlighted, seams are outlined and blemishes in once-seemingly smooth surfaces have no choice but to show themselves. This series of hollow objects and surfaces explore light’s uncanny ability to illuminate the truths and faults within the environment it’s in. Impartial to cleanliness and filth, light is a truth-teller: illuminating secrets, altering perceptions and creating its own version, or vision, of reality. This series explores newly developed techniques informed by traditional goldsmithing and metalwork and, as such, exists as an intersection of the aesthetics of adornment and industrial design.”

- Saydee Chandler