Refractions is a journal invested in how the light hits things differently.
“This means the task of decolonial artists, scholars and activists is not simply to offer amendments or edits to the current world, but to display the mutual sacrifice and relationality needed to sabotage colonial systems of thought and power for the purpose of liberatory alternatives.”
Jarrett Martineau and Eric Ritskes
“The term “constructive interference” describes the effect of a source sending out pulses of energy that results in the amplification of waves or ripples, whether water or sound. In the exhibition Constructive Interference, Ludovic Boney’s installations amplify the effect of our bodies in the spaces he has created. By extension, we can think about the affect of our actions and reactions, and how these play out both individually and across our society. He directs our attention, our movement and our bodies through his installations to highlight how momentary fragments connect to constructed symphonies of experiential ephemera.”
For more on Wendat sculptor Ludovic Boney’s work, and the daphne gallery project, click here.
(Image and excerpt used with permission from the artist and gallery).
“…Newton’s theory of ‘primitive’ colors and his proposal for organizing colour in relation to a “wheel” incited much debate among his European contemporaries. In this instance, as is not uncommon, controversy over a partiuclar text became the foundation for a field of knowledge…It is through the scientific that one comes to test and verify the notion of visual saturation. In other words, the institutional and structural shape the sensorial…”
C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp, Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value
Refractions is funded by Concordia University’s CCSL and gratefully acknowledges their support.