Closing Reception

Mark your calendars for Saturday July 12th 2008. From 7pm to 10pm, this closing reception is your chance to celebrate and discuss the underpinnings of the curatorial premise for Modern Fuel's Annual Juried Exhibition, its value to our community, and the work of talented regional artists.

This year's curator Camilla Singh will be in attendance at the closing reception, so come on out to hear all about how she came to choose the works for the show, and about her experiences visiting Kingston and working with Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre. In addition to the artists in the main gallery exhibition, Lynne Wynick, the artist featured in the concurrent State of Flux Gallery exhibtion, will also be present.

Curator's Bio:
Camilla Singh is a visual artist and curator, working in Toronto and exhibiting internationally. She is the Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, (MOCCA), where she has been working since 2002. She arrived at MOCCA with an intensive background of orchestrating contemporary art projects after receiving an M.F.A. from the Dutch Art Institute in the Netherlands. Her curatorial projects at MOCCA have often featured live areas hosting performances, concerts and sites of change within the gallery exhibition space. Recently, as curator of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche in 2007 she presented Supernatural City, consisting of ten major outdoor contemporary art installations viewed by 800,000 people over the course of 12 hours from dusk to dawn.

Singh is also an active member and co-founder of the New Remote art collective, a group of artists from Canada, the Netherlands and Serbia, who travel the world by invitation to produce spontaneous, site-specific installations. New Remote projects employ simple communication technologies to connect with geographically remote collaborators. The outcome of these works is often charged with the politics, culture and social conventions of the sites in which they are produced.