KALEIDOSCOPE

KALEIDOSCOPE

Kaleidoscope opens on Friday, March 31, 2006 at the Changing Room. The exhibit runs from March 31st April 8 and is open on Monday’s for the convenience of Art Professionals.

The photographic image for many years was hailed as a medium that recorded fact. Early in its inception photography was quickly embraced as a way to record moments deemed important. In reality, photography is a very subjective medium. In Kaleidoscope, Gild presents two styles of photographs: those that are "staged" and those that are not.

Sometimes, it is difficult to be able to differentiate between the two. Like a kaleidoscope, photography has a variegated way of capturing a scene or object that may itself be in a constant state of flux. Depending on the information provided a photo can have shifting values or meanings thus effecting it’s "realness". Phillip Toledano is a beast of staging photos that seem like happenstance and making outrageous photos seem like the most normal of things. Come and see the difference between the "real" and "unreal".

Phil Toledano’s photographs are a contemporary representation of what he believes to be the hopes and fears that run through America today. The warp and weft of the American dream are changing, and these changes are worn by the people in this series. While one man is covered in babies of every colour, a woman is touched by a multitude of hands. One man wears his guns with pride, while someone is strangled by a choker of firearms. Someone else is all ears, and yet another is covered in breasts. One person’s hope is another’s fear.