Roberta Pelan

The A Shooting Star is Not a Star group exhibition is on at New York’s Motel, opening August 12 and running to September 16.

Organized by Roberta Pelan, the show features Aline Bouvy, Weston Lowe, Raque Ford, Tom Forkin and Veronika Pausova. The press release contextualizes the work within the world of linguistics and the elaborate manipulation of ones own vocabulary to avoid telling a lie.

The concept is used to explore “the comfort of half-truths, [that are] ambiguous and noncommittal,” as a way to validate alternative ideologies and belief systems, looking to the Geocentric model and its inevitable navigational errors and stubborn denials to respond to the space of ‘unknowing.’

Visit the Motel website for details. **

Aline Bouvy, ‘Not much in my pockets’ (2015) Install view. Courtesy Exo, Paris.

The Ghost in The Machine group exhibition at New York’s Motel opens July 22 and is running to August 20.

Organized by Roberta Pelan, the show includes work by Aleksander Hardashnakov, Parker Kay and Brittany Shepherd.

Aleksander Hardashnakov is a Toronto-based artist who c0-directs The Loon, Parker Kay is a Toronto-based artist and writer who works across a number of disciplines to explore ” the systems and structures that operate within art, architecture, and communication theory.” And Brittany Shephard is a video artist who also founded and directs exhibition platform The Table in Toronto.

Visit the Motel website for details.**

Into the space of unknowing with the half-truths of A Shooting Star is Not a Star at New York’s Motel, Aug 12 – Sep 16

Aleksander Hardashnakov, Parker Kay + Brittany Shepherd in The Ghost in The Machine at Motel, Jul 22 – Aug 20