Lost worlds

by Sholem Krishtalka

Holly King has been all over the place lately. She had a solo exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts not too long ago, and more recently, she popped up in the MMFA's Hitchcock show. She can now add another solo exhibit to her roster: her show at the Galerie de Bellefeuille, which will be on for the next week and a half, starting today.

King's work is dynamic in every sense: visually, thematically and conceptually. Her oeuvre consists of large-scale, surreal colour photographs of worlds that are constructed (both literally and figuratively) like stage sets. As such, her work responds to a number of concerns of art making and art practice while remaining free of over-theorization, thematic obscurity and didacticism. Her otherworldly dreamscapes are lush and gorgeous, with a dark, dangerous undertone. King produces worlds to get lost in and that is her triumph. At 1367 Greene Avenue, until Aug. 28.

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