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Royal Botanical Gardens is pleased to host a third installment of it’s popular Nuit Blanche Revisited tribute exhibition
Nuit Blanche Revisited
Rescue Bubble
October 9 to November 11; Camilla and Peter Dalglish Atrium; RBG Centre
*Curated by Maryrose Coleman, PRIME Gallery
Rescue Bubble by Tomer Diamant
Rescue Bubble artist statement:
As the humble foot soldiers of disposable infrastructure, traffic pylons solicit an indifferent compliance in our daily navigations of the city. Here however, hundreds are amassed into a single glowing beacon of urgent concern.
On the verge of massive stimulus spending, governments are heralding fast-track infrastructure investment as the panacea for current economic woes. Speculative conditions that emerge under such massive spending can stifle rather than foster creative change. With schedules compressed to feed a shovel-ready hunger, unsustainable models can be entrenched rather than challenged.
This installation represents an attempt to link imagery from the world of sci-fi; that of the solitary, ominous alien vanguard with our current speculative economic reality in order to crystallize a feeling of a looming presence; a spore-like organism at once familiar and foreign, promising and dangerous.
Has the Rescue Bubble emerged to save our world or devour us all?
Tomer Diamant is an architect/artist based in Toronto.
BIOGRAPHY
Tomer Diamant is an artist/architect living and working in Toronto Canada. Diamant studied architecture at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto. Tomer’s research on speculative development and the hyper-efficiency of office buildings led him to looking closer at the siting of office parks at outlying urban areas, where he recognized an opportunity to capitalize on a stop gap program of seasonal greenhouse agriculture. This project proposes a hybrid building that combines office space with industrial greenhouse agriculture. Low land values would allow for the financing of large footprint buildings composed of paddy-like cells that could be converted from office to agriculture and back, with the prevailing economic winds.
Within his artistic practice, Diamant further explores contemporaneous themes such as speculative-urbanism, surveillance culture and the increasing prevalence of simultaneity as a social and spatial state.
Rescue Bubble explores the notion of an object that is at once familiar and foreign. Originally situated on a traffic intersection in Toronto, the installation is familiar in its constituent make-up of traffic pylons, a material ‘indigenous’ to the site. The uncanny effect of the aggregated object, an out-of scale, biological form is intended to create a playful tension between the part and the whole.
In current and ongoing work, Diamant uses contemporary methods to re-visit the centuries-old technique of anamorphic projection, in which disparate elements coalesce to reveal a single image from precise vantage points. Diamant views this technique though the ever-widening lens of surveillance practices, setting up situations where simultaneous, conflicting perspectives of a single scene call into question the totality of any mediated experience.
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