A Sudden Beginning
View of the installations. Photos: Toni Hafkenscheid.
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For his first exhibition in Canada, Bunga was invited to produce two major site-responsive works for MOCA. Inspired by the simplicity of the museum’s architecture and the rhythm of its columns, Bunga both stresses and challenges the structure’s physicality. His formidable installations and nomadic sensibility deepen his long-standing inquiry into some of the most poignant subjects of our time: stability, certainty and permanence. Incorporated into the exhibition are several new sculptures made from locally sourced furniture — side tables, writing desks, gilded frames and cabinets — that are reworked into painterly cityscapes. Enlivening Bunga’s project further is a short film of a performative breakage — the smashing of a lamp — and a sound piece installed in the south stairwell, each of which express a rupture’s potential to be as much about a sudden beginning, as it is the sign of an end.
PROCESS
Time-lapse for Occupy. Courtesy: MoCA Toronto.
Time-lapse for Procession. Courtesy: MoCA Toronto.
PERFORMANCE
A performative intervention that took place within and alongside Carlos Bunga’s large-scale cardboard installations in A Sudden Beginning. Through a succession of slow and deliberate movements carried out by five dancers, it positions Bunga’s installation as a passageway and transitional space, softening the relationship between body and materiality.
Choreographed by Lauren Runions of I/O Movement. Dancers: Allie Higgins, Lauren Runions, Denise Solleza, Yui Ugai and Shelby Wright.
Photos: Colin Medley.
INTERVIEW
Courtesy: MoCA Toronto.
Curator: Rui Mateus Amaral
2020. Toronto, Canada.
Interview. With artist Carlos Bunga, MOCA Toronto.
