Brendan george ko biography of william

  • Brendan George Ko (b.1986, Toronto, ON) is a document-based storyteller raised in Ontario, New Mexico, Texas, and Hawai'i, and is now based in Toronto and Maui.
  • Ko received his BFA in photography from Ontario College of Art & Design in 2010, and completed a Masters in Visual Arts at the University of Toronto in 2014.
  • Growing up, Brendan George Ko moved around a lot, adapting to a new place, its culture, landscape, textures and accents, then eventually moving to another.
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    About the Artists

    Carli Adby-Notley
    Bio: Carli is a photographer based in the UK, working within themes of womanhood, identity, loss & expectation. Her work emerges from the personal, with intimate moments of her life being shared in order to try & understand those of others. 

    Statement: Taken as part of the exploratory process for a project called 'Dear Womb' which address's the innate connection between our relationships with others & how that forms the view of our own ego and subsequently, the decisions we make. In this instance, that around motherhood. 

    Hannah Altman
    Bio: Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American artist from New Jersey. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Through photographic based media, her work interprets relationships between gestures, the body, lineage, and interior space.

    Statement: By engaging with imagery over the last five years, my mother and I have been building Indoor Voices around intergenerational womanhood, matrilineal responsibility, and the symbolism in quiet intimacy. The work is a collaborative discourse of familial and female oriented complexities that makes a testimony to our lineage and experiences as Jewish women.

    Sophie Barbasch
    Bio: Sophie Barbasc

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  • Brendan George Ko: We Soon Be Nigh

    In a time of cinematic Armageddon, endless documents of natural disasters and environmental shifts, and ancient wisdom foretelling the Apocalypse, belief is not a necessary vehicle into an impending sense of doom. The future has always been uncertain, but particular recent events — from rapidly rising sea levels to a continual “war on terror” — have shifted this feeling into the foreground. The notion of a precarious future seems omnipresent. It has moved beyond imagination and manifested itself in the photographic medium.

    Brendan George Ko investigates recent history and popular culture to find icons that represent a pessimistic view toward the future. Ko represents these icons in his photographs of outsiders, catastrophes, and future landscapes, which are accompanied by anecdotal didactic panels. Also on view: a video piece that strings together clips from 12 Hollywood disaster movies into one seamless film, a video installation complete with special effects, and a sonic landscape that fills the gallery environment with foreshadowing overtones.

    We Soon Be Nigh! attempts to capture the fleeting atmosphere that surrounds apocalyptic prophesies from both the past and the future. This atmosphere has existed in different forms and narrative

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