Brendan Fernandes
Toronto, Ontario
Pulsing with a dramatic lighting score indicating S-O-S in morse code, Brendan Fernandes’ towering
installation of shipping containers addresses the trauma of migration, displacement and change. Fernandes’ sculptural
installation evokes Moshe Safdie’s utopic Habitat housing scheme, produced for the 1967 Montreal
Exposition, and designed to include all people regardless of class, race or gender. Fernandes’ monumental
structure, however, reflects on the failure of this ideology and the susceptibility of these social projects
to capitalist forces. The work has a local relevance, reflecting on the politics of gentrification and
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Brendan Fernandes, Future (... - - - ...) Perfect, 2008
photography: Tom Legrady
Future (... - - - ...) Perfect, 2008
Multimedia Installation
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C2 Parking lot between Mowat and Fraser Avenues, South of Liberty Street
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