Lobby Fish
Artist Statement
Within a shopping mall, a mall itself within a skyscraper, there is an artificial jungle. There is a network of ponds and waterfalls. A simulated natural environment of plants and water features strictly delineated by revolving doors exists here, with a population of turtles and fish.
Three dead Koi, drying in the air conditioning, are what I remember most clearly. Their usefulness as visual elements over. Generations of these animals existing as notations, or accents on an architectural element, but in that moment they were simply dead animals occupying the liminal space of a food-court tray, next to a pond, in a fake jungle, in a mall, in a skyscraper. Life used as decoration in a setting built to make around work, around money.
Graham Krenz
Graham Krenz is an artist working sculpturally, often in wood. Receiving his BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2010, Krenz’s work often expresses autobiographical reflections on memory, the nature of recalled memory, and how it can be regenerated. He has shown work across Canada and the US, and his work can be found in private and public collections. He currently works from a studio in the St. Henri borough of Montréal.