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Bouquets for Paradise

Daniel Faria Gallery

Oct 22, 2024 — Dec 14, 2024

place188 St Helens Ave, Toronto, ON M6H 4A1, Canada

Daniel Faria Gallery•Oct 22, 2024 — Dec 14, 2024

place188 St Helens Ave, Toronto, ON M6H 4A1, Canada

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Stephanie Comilang

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Daniel Faria Gallery is pleased to present Bouquets for Paradise, Stephanie Comilang’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Stephanie Comilang’s work juxtaposes temporality, geography, and technology into objects and narratives in which the future and past become aligned, addressing diasporas, generations, survival, violence, and desire. In Bouquets for Paradise, a new series of textile works fill the room with images of the natural world. Monarch butterflies and flowers from potato, coffee, vanilla, and other plants extracted by Spanish colonizers, are machine embroidered on deconstructed denim clothing, stretched over tea-dyed canvas. These wall works surround figures shrouded in embroidered veils made from denim and piña fabric. Comilang’s embroidery methods mimic the unique vision of the monarch butterfly. Incredibly delicate and weighing less than half a gram, Monarchs in North America undertake one of the longest migrations of any insect in the...More expand_more