OAKVILLE GALLERIES: Summer Exhibitions and Sunset Kino Film Festival

Hedda Roman

Rogue Planet

22 June – 28 September 2024

Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square

Opening Events: Saturday, June 22nd, 2024

2 to 5 PM: Exhibition Opening at Centennial Square

3 to 6 PM: Exhibition Opening Reception and Remarks at Gairloch Gardens

6 to 10 PM: Summer Party & Sunset Kino in Gairloch Gardens

Hedda Roman will be in attendance.

All are welcome. All events are free.

The exhibition Rogue Planet, by Hedda Roman, explores the complexities of fictional biography, origin, and identity through AI technologies. Central to this exhibition is Oldboy, an avatar and Latent Space Traveller, whose poetic dialogues bridge digital realms with reality. Oldboy's existence challenges more traditional concepts of origin and identity, reflecting the transformative impact of digital technologies and AI on our understanding of selfhood.

The exhibition invites visitors to reconsider identity in the context of digital narratives and essentialism, and prompts a reflection on how machine learning and digital technologies shape, distort, and reconstruct our perceptions of identity and reality. Ultimately Rogue Planetencourages deeper contemplation on the influence of digitalization on identity as well as the authenticity of our personal and collective stories.

Hedda Roman is a Düsseldorf-based artist mesh composed of Hedda Schattanik and Roman Szczesny. Interweaving cinematographic elements with surreal animation, literature, drama, sculpture, photography, and drawing, they create, among others, immersive video installations as well as computer-generated images. In their artistic practice, Hedda Roman aims to expand the traditional boundaries of art-making while reflecting on the perceptions, preconceptions, and contradictions that characterize our existence in the world. Solo exhibitions include Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf (2023, 2021), Salzburger Kunstverein, (2023), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2021), Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2019), Julia Stoschek Collection, Studio 54, Düsseldorf (2019), Insel Hombroich, Neuss (2018), COMA Gallery, Sydney (2018).

Special thanks to Goethe-Institut Toronto for supporting this exhibition.

Sunset Kino

22 June, 2024 – 11 July, 2024

Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens

Sunset Kino is Canada's only outdoor, avant-garde film festival. Founded by Séamus Kealy in Austria in 2017, this festival continues now at Oakville Galleries.

Introduced by the programmers and commencing at sunset, audiences experience a curated program of films and videos by Canadian and international artists. This year's theme “Everything is a Lie" explores narratives that inform our current world, encouraging deeper consideration of the influence of digitalization on identity and our personal and collective stories. The program thus ventures into themes of truth and fiction; reality and virtuality; distortion and essentialism; disinformation, propaganda and representation; as well as how art, film, ideas and politics all intersect in a rapidly changing world.

All films are screened outdoors in Gairloch Gardens.

Please dress appropriately and bring seating and blankets. Picnics welcome. With inclement weather, screenings will be indoors in the Studio.

Admission is Free

Program:

Saturday, 22 June, 8:30 PM

Films by Catherina Cramer, Daphne Fietz, Fynn Rybbeck, and Silke Schönfeld

Programmed by Hedda Roman

Thursday, 27 June, 8:30 PM

Films by Aideen Barry

Programmed by Séamus Kealy

Thursday, 4 July, 8:30 PM

Films by Rehab Nazzal, Ali Kazimi, Jayce Salloum, and Sanaz Sohrabi

Programmed by Faisal Anwar & Tazeen Qayyum

Thursday,11 July, 8:30 PM

Films by Adrian Paci

Programmed by Séamus Kealy

Summer 2024 ARTbus: Exhibition Tour

Saturday 22 June 2024, 12:00 PM–6:00 PM

Pick-up and drop off at Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto.

$15 registration fee includes transportation to all galleries and afternoon refreshments at Gairloch Gardens.

In partnership with Olga Korper Gallery and the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Oakville Galleries invites you to join us for the Summer ARTbus tour of three exhibitions. Beginning with Olga Korper Gallery, visitors will tour Lois Andison’s solo exhibition. The ARTbus will then continue to the Art Gallery of Mississauga to tour Sara Angelucci: Undergrowth. Then it’s off to Oakville Galleries, where participants will attend the opening reception of Hedda Roman: Rogue Planet, beginning with Oakville Galleries in Centennial Square and concluding with Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Artists Lois Andison and Sara Angelucci will be in attendance for the walk-through of their respective exhibitions. Hedda Schattanik and Roman Szczesny of Hedda Roman will be in attendance at Gairloch Gardens, where visitors will enjoy afternoon refreshments and opening remarks.

Please visit oakvillegalleries.com for program details.