Exhibition Dates: May 1 – 30
Reception: May 15th, 7 – 10pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturdays | 11am – 5pm
Curated by: Li Koo & Stanzie Tooth

Osheen Harruthoonyan’s sumptuous photographic prints evoke the uncertain flashes encountered at the threshold of a dream. Combining traditional large-format photography with a variety of analog photo-manipulation techniques, Harruthoonyan skillfully renders his subjects within ethereally illusive environments. The fastidious striations and cracks of his transformed film negatives become esoteric anomalies that evoke echoes of slumbering vision. Harruthoonyan’s willingness to take risks within the confines of the photographic process makes this representational capacity possible. Altering each negative by hand, his diverse images crystallize midway between the calculable and the spontaneous, addressing both the systematic and the chaotic. His careful yet playful approach to landscape, still-life and portraiture illuminates the irreconcilable mysteries of our collective unconscious. Harruthoonyan’s creations conjure the lifetimes that exists within moments, and the glimmers of strangeness that give pause to our ever-evolving subconscious states. Within his work, we witness not only the captured image, but the very process of image-making laid bare.