Website: http://www.whippersnapper.ca/emergence/index.html

Whippersnapper is very excited to invite you to the most ambitious show ever

staged at the Gallery. "Emergence 2" is an entrancing two- person exhibition

of immersive sculptural installations by Toronto based Amanda Nedham and by

Montreal based Jannick Deslaurier.

Amanda Nedham and Jannick Deslaurier are each breaking major ground in their

respective budding careers. With artistic practices anchored in drawing yet

often manifested in sculpture and installation, their art at once

demonstrates profound technical skill while also weaving poetic dialogues

around important historical and contemporary issues.

Amanda Nedham's work is primarily concerned with the taxonomic functions of

history, in particular those that relate to colonial processes of archaic

classification, and cruelty. In her powerful new sculptural installation

"Generals Always Die in Bed", she will unveil a custom-built torture machine

fit for a general. Jannick Deslaurier's work also focuses in on histories of

violence literally sewing a discourse between the transcendence of beauty

and the tragedies of existence. Her fibre based drawings and sculptural

installations walk the line between fear and dreams, civility and death,

harmony and conflict, fantasy and horror. She will be presenting "Champ De

Povots", a beautiful field of poppies surrounding a life-size ghostly war

machine. In this bi-regional and cross-cultural two-person exhibit

WhipperSnapper Gallery is very proud to be presenting major new bodies of

work by each of these extremely relevant, fascinating and talented young