Fall Exhibitions Opening Reception: Elif Saydam and Leisure

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Join us on 29 September 2023 from 7:00- 9:00 PM for the exhibition opening reception at Gairloch Gardens.

Light refreshments and snacks will be served, a shuttle bus will be available from the Oakville GO station. Check our website for further details.

Elif Saydam: Eviction Notice

29 September 2023 – 6 January 2024 | Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens

In their expanded painting practice, Berlin-based artist Elif Saydam examines the formation and judgment of aesthetic taste and the forces that influence them. Eviction Notice, Saydam’s first institutional exhibition in Canada, draws upon traditions of ornamentation outside of the European canon to consider dynamics of desire that are extended to objects and social spaces. Saydam will present new works encompassing painting, textile, installation, and photography that mine the decorative as a methodical tool for contextualizing sociopolitical narratives. Set in the domestic, suburban backdrop of Gairloch Gardens, a former home, the exhibition extrapolates the material qualities of built structures to articulate broader topics such as social mobility and collective aspirations within an increasingly gentrified world.

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Oakville Galleries

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