Fable for Tomorrow, Wendy Coburn
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
Subscribe – Wendy Coburn
Supposing It Was Your Sister – Wendy Coburn
Spirit of Canada Eating Beaver – Wendy Coburn
Leda and the Beaver – Wendy Coburn
Morning Toilet (After Jan Steen) – Wendy Coburn
"911" Suite – Wendy Coburn
The End – Wendy Coburn
Untitled (buck) – Wendy Coburn
My Heart Divine – Wendy Coburn
Die Trauernde – Wendy Coburn
Slut Nation: Anatomy of a Protest – Wendy Coburn