Dear You: To Whom It May Concern, 2019. Stone and sand concrete mix, water, chicken wire, and canola oil. Various molds. Gouache-painted walls and wooden shelves with masonite, screws, and supporting structure. Audio with headphones and iPod.
Location: Installation Room in Annie Smith (Sheridan College, Oakville). Exhibited: April 2-6, 2019.
Dear You: To Whom It May Concern (2019) is a self-reflective initiative that examines Canaviri's personal consideration of everyday objects and the reasoning for casting. Upon her initial inspection, she chose objects that she used on an everyday to casual basis. This ranged from a half drunken water bottle to a purse to a razor – all of which Canaviri came in contact with. On their own, these negative casts are representative of what they are in a way that both obscures them and monumentalizes them. From one standpoint, casting the negative of these objects in concrete becomes a way to solidify what they are. A concrete razor, for example, is more than just a regular razor as it has the impression of the real object but is useless and is now un-disposable as the real razor once was.
However, the negative impression that these casts take on is just one half of the work. The audio aspect presents the second half of this series and gives the work new meaning by accusing the viewer as being "you" in the dialogue. It is within these audio clips that these negative cast objects enter the socio-political and personal realm.
Click here to listen to the associated audio work.
However, the negative impression that these casts take on is just one half of the work. The audio aspect presents the second half of this series and gives the work new meaning by accusing the viewer as being "you" in the dialogue. It is within these audio clips that these negative cast objects enter the socio-political and personal realm.
Click here to listen to the associated audio work.
Extreme Passive-Aggressive Support (In Support of Others), 2018. Annie Smith community and gouache black & white paint.
Location: Main floors and hallways in Annie Smith (Sheridan College, Oakville). Exhibited: December 1-18, 2018.
Extreme Passive-Aggressive Support or in its briefer title In Support of Others, is an organized collaborative work under Canaviri's supervision that is meant to highlight the injustice that sculpture or installation-based students face when trying to showcase their work in Annie Smith (Sheridan College, Oakville) as of the start of this semester. With the growing list of rules and restrictions that she and other students face in the attempt of trying to find installation space outside of the classroom, they call for a revisit and a revision of these rules to something that suits their needs in an arts school. In particular and at the moment, they are calling for a discussion through their written words "art is resistance" in various languages and fonts.