Two Rivers Gallery is presenting Transition, a one-of-a-kind art installation created by Québec City-based artist José Luis Torres.
Torres is coming all the way across Canada to create work especially for the gallery that explores his perspective on the experience of relocation. This sculptural work will take over the exhibition space from February 11 to April 9.
Transition invites us to consider three themes Torres feels are central to the experience of immigration: camouflage, reflection, and construction. To encourage reflection on these topics, Torres is single-handedly constructing an all-encompassing structure within the gallery and furnishing it with everyday objects.
Visitors will find themselves surrounded by familiar domestic items like mirrors, glassware, and dining sets that have been plucked from local secondhand stores and given a new life. Torres selected these everyday objects because they are precisely the essential items many of us seek out when building a new home. Transition calls into question things that many of us take for granted. What makes a place home? What do we take with us when we go?
José Luis Torres is no stranger to migration; while he has been based out of Québec since 2003, he was born in Argentina. This profound environmental and cultural shift has greatly influenced his work, which focuses largely on the experiences of adapting and contributing to a new environment.
Of his artistic practice, Torres says that his works “touch on the notion of the memories of a location, a building and the inhabitants.”
Artist Talk and Opening Reception
Please join Two Rivers Gallery on Friday, February 10 for an artist talk by José Luis Torres. He will discuss his exhibition, Transition, as well as his artistic practice at large. This talk will be delivered by Torres in French and will be accompanied by an English translation courtesy of Le Cercle des Canadiens Français de Prince George. The talk will begin at 7:30 p.m. with an opening reception to follow. This event is open to all and free to attend.