NO FIXED ABODE
Simon Fraser University Gallery
Burnaby, BC, CA
January 11 - May 7, 2020
(shuttered Feb. 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic)
Curated by Melanie O’Brian.
“ Lyse Lemieux's practice engages the line through forms that range from figuration to abstraction. No Fixed Abode is an exhibition of drawings, both three-dimensional textile drawings and large drawings on paper. Lemieux's exhibition title refers to the elusive subject of Franz Kafka's short story Odradek, or The Cares of a Family Man (1919). The story is about a figure or thing called Odradek that is somewhere between subject and object. "He lurks by turn in the garret, the stairway, the lobbies, the entrance hall. …Yet when asked, 'And where do you live?' 'No fixed abode,' he says.." Pursuing forms that inhabit a space of ambiguity, Lemieux’s works resist being easily read, particularly in her blurring of subject and object. “ - Melanie O’Brian, Director Curator, SFU Galleries
