The Site of Heavenly Revolution
Swing by The Innovation Studio this month to check out Toko Hosoya's newest installation, The Site of Heavenly Revolution.
This experimental glove series includes a dynamic sculpture which blends traditional craft and digital fabrication techniques with unconventional material explorations in glove-making. The Site of Heavenly Revolution is the concluding exhibition of Toko's 2022 Creative in Residence.
The Creative in Residence program is a 4-week self-directed residency opportunity for practicing ‘making-based creatives’ at all stages of their career.
The realm of hand-coverings is one where practicality and need exist closely with myth and frivolity. Gloves provide us with protection from the outside world and also act as symbols that harbour rich patterns of belief and culture.
The Site of Heavenly Revolution
Oct 11, 2022 – Nov 8, 2022
Free to the public, viewing upon request dfz@torontomu.ca
The Innovation Studio, 110 Bond Street, The Gallery (CIS110)
Presented by The Design Fabrication Zone and The Innovation Studio as part of the 2022 Creative in Residence Program.
The Site of Heavenly Revolution is an exercise in dreaming as a means of self-preservation. This experimental glove series by Toko Hosoya, draws upon the fantasies surrounding everyday, practical items. To the artist, this fantasy is not about escapism, but one that is well embedded within the ugly parts of life.
Using found materials and custom printed textiles inspired by our immediate environment, each garment has been laboriously assembled following and sometimes breaking the traditions of glove-making. This constructed site embraces the reimagining of things already here — a continuous building and unbuilding, dismantling and remaking.
The movements and forms are repetitive and familiar. Yet together, they create a choreography that is a little bit larger than life, moving somewhere between garbage and treasure.
About the Artist
Toko Hosoya is a Japanese-Canadian artist based in Tkarónto/Toronto. She received her bachelor of design at OCAD University and her work has been displayed in galleries in Canada, the United States, Japan, and Poland.