Factory Media Centre is pleased to announce that Jimmy Limit will be joining us as our January – February 2022 remote residency artist! Through this residency, Jimmy will be creating a series of video works.
Please Join FMC for Jimmy Limit’s Culminative Artist Talk on Thursday April 14th at 7:00pm.
In an open discussion Jimmy will talk about and share some of the work made while doing this residency, as well videos that inspired this body of work. Participants are free to recommend or share work it reminds them of, leading to a youtube playlist that will be saved.
About the artist:
Jimmy Limit uses photography and video to explore the tension between image and object. Adopting the language of commercial photography and advertising he creates highly graphic compositions that are both familiar and strangely illegible, causing the viewer to question the motives of the imagery.
He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States including Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn Estonia, Rodman Hall St. Catharines, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto and Printer Matter, NYC. His work has been published in The New York Times, Frieze Magazine and has been featured on the covers of C Magazine and cura. Recent public works have included Photos for a Project in Progress at the Bentway in Toronto and Photos for Vacant Storefronts, for CAFKA16 in Kitchener, ON. He was born in Toronto and currently lives and works in St. Catharines with his partner and three children.
About the project:
Jimmy’s video series will explore the relationship between image and object, and how image-making affects and creates value, how it distributes and communicates in our connected world, and how multiples might be combined and altered into new forms and purposes. The installation will be an expansion on Jimmy’s extensive body of photography, which borrows the aesthetics of advertising and art historical references to allow for a questioning of how desire and value are created for goods and objects.
A message from the artist:
“In 2016 I made a video for an exhibition at Gallery 44 (Toronto). The video utilized motion within my studio photography set ups, using the same aesthetics and formal considerations, paired with stock music. In doing so these videos took on the role of commercials for something ambiguous (or nothing at all). I recently revisited this work and really love it. During this residency I intend to create more of these vignette videos, pushing myself further with financial and technical support and scholarship from FMC. This support will be invaluable in continuing this investigation into translating my photographs into videos.”
About the residency
FMC’s &NOW Production Residency is an opportunity for artists and creators to utilize the space and resources at FMC to produce a new work or continue a developing body of work.
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