Critical Writing Index

Fable for Tomorrow, Wendy Coburn

by Andrea Fatona, Caroline Seck Langill and Rebecca Garrett

Toronto: Onsite Gallery, 2023

ISBN 9781772520224

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Fable for Tomorrow, Wendy Coburn presented at Onsite Gallery in 2023. The exhibition offers a survey of Canadian artist Wendy Coburn, showcasing lens based and sculptural works made between 1990 and 2014. The essays in this catalogue describe Coburn's preoccupation with the natural world. Coburn critiques the maltreatment of the land and its inhabitants, using art to imagine equity between humans and non-humans.

Contents: Foreword by Lisa Deanne Smith; Fable for Tomorrow by Andrea Fatona and Caroline Seck Langill; Critical Attachments, Wendy Coburn's Video Work by Rebecca Garrett and b.h. Yael; Fable for Tomorrow: A Survey of Works by Wendy Coburn; Holding Coburn by Jess Dobkin; List of Works; Curriculum Vitae of Wendy Coburn; Biographies.

Contains an erratum slip.

ITEM 2023.007 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

SubscribeWendy Coburn

Supposing It Was Your SisterWendy Coburn

Spirit of Canada Eating BeaverWendy Coburn

Leda and the BeaverWendy Coburn

Morning Toilet (After Jan Steen)Wendy Coburn

"911" SuiteWendy Coburn

The EndWendy Coburn

Untitled (buck)Wendy Coburn

My Heart DivineWendy Coburn

Die TrauerndeWendy Coburn

Slut Nation: Anatomy of a ProtestWendy Coburn