Water, Tea, Oil and Space is a vitrine exhibition by Toronto-based video artist Prajj, whose practice explores the tactile and expressive possibilities of film and digital media. Using projection and mirrors, the work transforms light reflected through water, tea, and oil into shifting, abstract digital patterns.
Each liquid carries its own symbolic charge: water as purity and vitality, oil as seductive and volatile “black gold,” and tea as a convergence of nature and industrialization. Together, they create a conceptual space between the organic and the artificial, the sacred and the digital.
Through this interplay of material and light, Prajj’s work moves beyond narrative, inviting viewers to experience a meditative tension between physical substance and digital image.
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This exhibition is part of Trinity Square Video’s Vitrine Program
Supported by the Canadian Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario.
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As video-based practices have become increasingly present across disciplines, Trinity Square engages artists and curators in critical investigations into the changing conditions of perception, materiality and the virtual. We consider all of our artistic activities and structures through a process of critical self-reflection, continuously evaluating the ethical positioning of our programming, jury structures, inter-organizational relationships, et cetera. In addition to holding aesthetic worth in its own right, our artistic programming extends our education and production activities in order to generate new knowledges.
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