Anna Eyler & Nicolas Lapointe at the City Hall Art Gallery

Navigating the peculiarly demarcated oases of the virtual, commenting on the speculative nature of screens, and capitalizing on technology’s ability to inspire belief, void loop() is a contemporary meditation on spirituality, pregnant with cautionary messages about the precariousness of our times. If these works represent only a small portion of Eyler’s and Lapointe’s broader investigation on the entanglements of technology, transcendence, and phenomenal occurrences, they exemplify our urge to read fullness and significance into the immaterial void, from the vast expanse of the empyrean regions, down to the void of a video display monitor.

– Laura Demers

Biographies

Anna Eyler holds a BA in Religious Studies and Art History from Carleton University (2010) and a BFA from the University of Ottawa (2015). Recent awards include the Artengine New Media Award (2015), the Sparkbox Residency Award (2016), and the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2017). Her work was included in FILE: Electronic Language International Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil (2017). Eyler is an MFA candidate in Sculpture at Concordia University.

Nicolas Lapointe is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal, Quebec. He holds a Diploma in Visual Arts from the CÉGEP de l’Outaouais (2010) and a BFA from the University of Ottawa (2015). Lapointe is the recipient of several awards, including the Dale and Nick Tedeschi Studio Arts Fellowship. Lapointe is an MFA candidate in Sculpture at Concordia University.

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