SAW HORSES AND PONIES: A 21st CENTURY TAIL

MIKE BOURSCHEID

May 8 - 31 2021

at 113 Division Street

The line between where you end and I begin has been under heightened scrutiny these past twelve months. As a public health crisis calls our every move and interaction into question, and as domestic dwelling structures have been forced inward, questions around autonomy, identity, agency, the self, and other have become unavoidable.

In SAW HORSES AND PONIES: A 21ST CENTURY TAIL, artist Mike Bourscheid turns masked interactions with adorned, coiffed gloves into an ontological study. Reflecting on his own individuality vis-à-vis the other, and - via the gloves-turned-counterpart, creating an extension of himself into the other - Bourscheid plays with a visual narrative form to blur the parameters surrounding what a relationship is, and what a relationship can become, when imagined.

Mike Bourscheid (*1984 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. A prolific worker, he has exhibited internationally and represented Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale in 2017 with his exhibition THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE FLOWERS. His artistic range of motion spans from drawing to sculpture to performance; always sensitive, always with a twinkle in his eye,his work approaches the viewer on many levels and impresses not only with wit and intellect, but is also striking in composition and craftsmanship.