A View From One Point to Another, From the Outside Looking OutMaryanne Casasanta July 5th – August...

A View From One Point to Another, From the Outside Looking Out

Maryanne Casasanta
July 5th – August 2nd, 2013

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. –Sol LeWitt (1965)

Maryanne Casasanta is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. In her work she investigates the everyday as a potential point of departure by observing and photographing the objects that surround her home and studio. Before the documentation process takes place the objects are deliberately staged with an almost fetishistic appreciation of these “life artifacts”, making them into a sculptural entity of an ephemeral nature (it is likely that the sculptures will only exist once in a particular arrangement, for the sake of the photograph). The objects are then rearranged, rephotographed and thus recontextualized again, in order to maintain an active link to Maryanne’s shifting idea of personal space, and her memory.

From an interview I did in 2013 with Yuula Benivolski that I had completely forgotten about. I apologize for its crypticity. It was a strange installation in the window of Xpace in Toronto and I have little to no documentation of it. The rest of it is here.