2021 Exhibition
31. Shadow Machines
Artist Information
Building on old magic lanterns and other 17th-century projector technologies, these apparatuses present viewers with a duet of cinematic projections created without film. The Shadow Machines project the delicate and crisp shadow of a small mesh sculpture. As the focal lens shifts slowly forwards and backwards, the projected image appears to turn the small sculpture almost inside out. The visual illusion of shifting focus through an object leaves us unable to decipher the difference between the inside and the outside of the sculpture. The small mesh is transformed from a still, static form and metamorphosed into a moving shadow. Shadow Machines creates cinema out of the basic elements of light, time and space, without any film or moving images.
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Layne Hinton
Layne Hinton is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator based in Toronto. Through analog projection, sculpture, installation, video, drawing, and printmaking, her artwork examines collections of architectural forms, geometric structures, and the way in which line, light, and shadow play with these spaces. She maintains an interest in site-specific artwork, responding to the history, context, and physical form of the spaces in which she presents her work. Continuing her exploration of space, Layne is a curator for Art Spin, an organization that situates site-specific projects in unique spaces in transition.
Hinton holds a BFA from OCAD University in Integrated Media, with a minor in Printmaking. She was recently awarded the OCADU Alumni of Influence Trailblazer Award, as well as a juried position in the Toronto Arts Council’s Leader’s Lab Program. Hinton's work has been shown in Toronto at the Art Gallery of Ontario; YYZ Artist's Outlet; O'Born Contemporary; InterAccess Electronic and Media Arts Centre and Pleasure Dome; and abroad with WRECK CITY, Calgary; the Lower Gallery at University of Buffalo SUNY; The Frank Gallery Pembroke Pines, Florida; Mono No Aware NYC; L'École des Beaux Arts Paris and the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg Russia.
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