Charles Stankievech – The Desert Turned to Glass
Oct 19, 2024 - Feb 01, 2025
Charles Stankievech - The Desert Turned to Glass
Date: October 19, 2024 - February 1, 2025
Location: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, 120 Navy Street, Oakville.
A meteorite floats above a sand floor, a psychedelic volcano crystallizes deep time. The Desert Turned to Glass is a meditation oscillating between the cosmic and the chthonic. Travelling through vast distances in space and time from outer space to Paleolithic caves, Stankievech entwines science fiction speculation and contemporary scientific theories on the origin of life, consciousness, and art. At a moment obsessed with planetary endings, Stankievech returns to the formation of the earth’s atmosphere in geologic time—in a word, to creation itself.
Exhibited across both Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square, a collection of videos, photographs and sculptures invites the visitor into a material and mystical world under tectonic transformation. During the exhibition, an accompanying concert entitled The Glass Key will be performed by Stankievech at Trinity College Chapel, University of Toronto.