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Within, through, and across Universalia, Bronson Smillie expands his practice of probing the possibilities of material intervention. The resulting fugue asks us to seriously consider all manner of serialization, but especially the act of fixing an object that is codified as informative within a system of cat-egorization. ‘Universalia’, meaning attributes, properties, or qualities shared by divergent objects, manifests as the exhibition’s recurrent motto and its angle of inquiry.

The titular series of wall works, Encyclopédie (I-VIII), act as a malfunctioning manual for approaching the exhibition as a whole. By carving into and selectively peeling back the encyclopedias’ leather, Smillie exposes fascia-like book board. The recurring motif of a house and a flower, in addition to various erasures of the embossed titles, are punctuated by rings of jaunty buttons. Like an orbital field, a brief window of vision, Smillie’s action on these covers transposes...More expand_more

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Within, through, and across Universalia, Bronson Smillie expands his practice of probing the possibilities of material intervention. The resulting fugue asks us to seriously consider all manner of serialization, but especially the act of fixing an object that is codified as informative within a system of cat-egorization. ‘Universalia’, meaning attributes, properties, or qualities shared by divergent objects, manifests as the exhibition’s recurrent motto and its angle of inquiry.

The titular series of wall works, Encyclopédie (I-VIII), act as a malfunctioning manual for approaching the exhibition as a whole. By carving into and selectively peeling back the encyclopedias’ leather, Smillie exposes fascia-like book board. The recurring motif of a house and a flower, in addition to various erasures of the embossed titles, are punctuated by rings of jaunty buttons. Like an orbital field, a brief window of vision, Smillie’s action on these covers transposes...More expand_more

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