Fauxmo | Dainesha Nugent-Palache
2018
23.5 x 15.25 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Fauxmo emerges from a recent suite of works by Nugent-Palache that interrogate the synthetic or incomplete ways the artist has been able to access her own heritage as a Canadian born in a diasporic Jamaican family. As the artist playfully upends photographic structures of framing, depth, and flatness, the fragmented houseplants in Fauxmo suggest a placelessness experienced by many first-generation Canadians: both here and elsewhere, tied to two countries yet rooted in neither. Like the title’s allusion to an oft-referenced condition of contemporary life—FOMO, or the fear of missing out—Nugent-Palache uses sumptuous colour and distinctive framing to produce an evocative world that we can never fully access.
ABOUT DAINESHA NUGENT-PALACHE
Lives and works in Toronto.
Through her performative video works and photographs, Toronto-based artist Dainesha Nugent- Palache explores the dichotomies and paradoxes inherent in representations of Afro-Caribbean identity. Her practice is concerned with visualizations of Black diaspora across pasts, presents, and speculative futures, producing portraits and other still life-based works. With an exuberant approach to colour and display, Nugent-Palache’s work often negotiates with forms of glamour, excess, and other photographic strategies inherent to the visual cultures of capitalism.
Selected group exhibitions: (Un) Othered Bodies, OCAD University Graduate Gallery, Toronto, ON (2017); Femme Wave: This is What Makes Our Guts So Vibrant, Truck Contemporary, Calgary, AB (2016); Fly By Night, Nuit Blanche, The Gladstone, Toronto (2016); AGO First Thursdays, AGO, Toronto, ON (2016); UN PLURAL+ Film Festival, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, New York, NY (2016) INTAC: Desire The Double Edged Sword, Valokuvakeskus Nykyaika, Finland (2016).
2018
23.5 x 15.25 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Fauxmo emerges from a recent suite of works by Nugent-Palache that interrogate the synthetic or incomplete ways the artist has been able to access her own heritage as a Canadian born in a diasporic Jamaican family. As the artist playfully upends photographic structures of framing, depth, and flatness, the fragmented houseplants in Fauxmo suggest a placelessness experienced by many first-generation Canadians: both here and elsewhere, tied to two countries yet rooted in neither. Like the title’s allusion to an oft-referenced condition of contemporary life—FOMO, or the fear of missing out—Nugent-Palache uses sumptuous colour and distinctive framing to produce an evocative world that we can never fully access.
ABOUT DAINESHA NUGENT-PALACHE
Lives and works in Toronto.
Through her performative video works and photographs, Toronto-based artist Dainesha Nugent- Palache explores the dichotomies and paradoxes inherent in representations of Afro-Caribbean identity. Her practice is concerned with visualizations of Black diaspora across pasts, presents, and speculative futures, producing portraits and other still life-based works. With an exuberant approach to colour and display, Nugent-Palache’s work often negotiates with forms of glamour, excess, and other photographic strategies inherent to the visual cultures of capitalism.
Selected group exhibitions: (Un) Othered Bodies, OCAD University Graduate Gallery, Toronto, ON (2017); Femme Wave: This is What Makes Our Guts So Vibrant, Truck Contemporary, Calgary, AB (2016); Fly By Night, Nuit Blanche, The Gladstone, Toronto (2016); AGO First Thursdays, AGO, Toronto, ON (2016); UN PLURAL+ Film Festival, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, New York, NY (2016) INTAC: Desire The Double Edged Sword, Valokuvakeskus Nykyaika, Finland (2016).
2018
23.5 x 15.25 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Fauxmo emerges from a recent suite of works by Nugent-Palache that interrogate the synthetic or incomplete ways the artist has been able to access her own heritage as a Canadian born in a diasporic Jamaican family. As the artist playfully upends photographic structures of framing, depth, and flatness, the fragmented houseplants in Fauxmo suggest a placelessness experienced by many first-generation Canadians: both here and elsewhere, tied to two countries yet rooted in neither. Like the title’s allusion to an oft-referenced condition of contemporary life—FOMO, or the fear of missing out—Nugent-Palache uses sumptuous colour and distinctive framing to produce an evocative world that we can never fully access.
ABOUT DAINESHA NUGENT-PALACHE
Lives and works in Toronto.
Through her performative video works and photographs, Toronto-based artist Dainesha Nugent- Palache explores the dichotomies and paradoxes inherent in representations of Afro-Caribbean identity. Her practice is concerned with visualizations of Black diaspora across pasts, presents, and speculative futures, producing portraits and other still life-based works. With an exuberant approach to colour and display, Nugent-Palache’s work often negotiates with forms of glamour, excess, and other photographic strategies inherent to the visual cultures of capitalism.
Selected group exhibitions: (Un) Othered Bodies, OCAD University Graduate Gallery, Toronto, ON (2017); Femme Wave: This is What Makes Our Guts So Vibrant, Truck Contemporary, Calgary, AB (2016); Fly By Night, Nuit Blanche, The Gladstone, Toronto (2016); AGO First Thursdays, AGO, Toronto, ON (2016); UN PLURAL+ Film Festival, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, New York, NY (2016) INTAC: Desire The Double Edged Sword, Valokuvakeskus Nykyaika, Finland (2016).