Luminato Gallery
46 Hayden street
Ontario
M4Y 1V8
Toronto
Canada
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Vladimir Kanic Book of Waves Pt. 100
Emre Namyeter Untitled - Color Shifting
Pavlina Alea Allegra II
About the Artist
Kanic’s work envisions a symbiotic future where living sculptures function as both ecological interventions and speculative gestures toward climate justice. Collaborating with algae as both artistic medium and carbon capture mechanism, his practice is grounded in ecofeminist methodologies and posthumanist inquiry, drawing on thinkers like Donna Harvey to cultivate responsibility that “feels both for the human and the non-human.”
Vladimir Kanic is a transdisciplinary artist whose living algae installations transform spectator’s breath into oxygen, creating participatory ecosystems that embody the possibilities of interspecies collaboration. Informed by his maritime heritage and free diving experience, Kanic’s practice uses breath as both material and method for creating art, accessing cultural, ancestral and geological memories embedded within algae – Earth’s principal carbon sinks, responsible for producing approximately 60% of the planet’s oxygen.
Kanic’s work envisions a symbiotic future where living sculptures function as both ecological interventions and speculative gestures toward climate justice. Collaborating with algae as both artistic medium and carbon capture mechanism, his practice is grounded in ecofeminist methodologies and posthumanist inquiry, drawing on thinkers like Donna Harvey to cultivate responsibility that “feels both for the human and the non-human.”
Recipient of the Governor General’s Academic Medal, Kanic holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from York University. In addition to this visual arts practice, Kanic is an award-winning filmmaker and alum of Locarno film academy and Berlinale Talents, with award-winning films and artworks exhibited internationally.
Namyeter's newest series "Now I See, or Do I?" fosters a world of visual possibility. Meaning is not predetermined but instead dictated by each individual's lived experience. In an abandonment of intellectual inaccessibility, Namyeter prioritizes audience perception, centering viewer experience and contemplation as integral moments in his work.
A master of colour and perception, Turkish artist, Emre Namyeter's mesmerizing abstractions work to further Art History's study of optical effect. His artworks are layered with vivid homemade paints, carefully placed to create enchanting compositions and hypnotic patterns that encourage inner contemplation.
Namyeter's newest series "Now I See, or Do I?" fosters a world of visual possibility. Meaning is not predetermined but instead dictated by each individual's lived experience. In an abandonment of intellectual inaccessibility, Namyeter prioritizes audience perception, centering viewer experience and contemplation as integral moments in his work.
Her representational depictions are contrasted through naturally formed abstraction and surrealism. As light and reflection are set in conversation with the movement of water, Alea’s artwork is both calming and unsettling. The reflections she paints in her work change shape and distort reality into a liminal alternate universe.
Atlanta based artist, Pavlina Alea’s work captures fleeting moments that she perceives to be of the utmost beauty. She is fascinated by unusual relationships and the interplay between mundane objects and the intense optic distortions caused by water and ice. Alea explores this relationship in her artistic practice in order to examine the presence of humanity within the uncontrollable context of nature.
Her representational depictions are contrasted through naturally formed abstraction and surrealism. As light and reflection are set in conversation with the movement of water, Alea’s artwork is both calming and unsettling. The reflections she paints in her work change shape and distort reality into a liminal alternate universe.
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