Parc Offsite, Eli Kerr, Montréal
Anthony Burnham, Fatine-Violette Sabiri
For Art-o-rama 2023, Parc Offsite, Eli Kerr presents new works by Montreal-based artists Anthony Burnham (1973) and Fatine-Violette Sabiri (1994).
While their practices each depart from their own distinct methodologies and positions both Burnham and Sabiri make work that touches on notions of quotidian transformations in daily life.
The act of painting itself becomes the subject in Anthony Burnham’s conceptually driven work. In his ongoing series, Plateaus, Burnham’s paintings are representational insofar they depict oil paint on a palette tray, yet he also uses them as real working palettes. In this way they slip between image and object and are conceptual works, making meta-referential linkages to the history of painting and to Anthony’s entire oeuvre, as these colors and marks are indexical to his painting. The Plateau works are residually produced in relation to his larger studio practice where paintings emerge from continuously re-articulating an armature construction, which creates figure-subjects for his paintings, which Burnham makes with a large vacuum spraybooth that he has constructed in his studio.
Working in a hybrid space of photography and sculpture, Fatine-Violette Sabiri’s work bares both documentarian and surrealist impulses. Narratives in her work often depart from her personal environment. Raised in Casablanca and based in Montreal, Fatine is interested in Maghreb communities and would depart from this interest for new work to be shown in Marseille.
