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'envoi', a Group Show at SIBLING, Toronto

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Garrett Lockhart, Peace, Freedom, Happiness, 2018
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Garrett Lockhart, Peace, Freedom, Happiness (detail), 2018
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Garrett Lockhart, Misty rose, 2019
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Sara Kay Maston, Ground, 2019
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Sara Kay Maston, Sky, 2018-19
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Parker Kay, I WROTE A NOTE BEHIND THE WALL, 2019
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Parker Kay, A shipwreck Seen From the Air, 2019
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Parker Kay, A Desire Guide for Inverted Mountains, 2019
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Garrett Lockhart, Little sunflower, 2019
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Garrett Lockhart, Untitled, 2019
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Garrett Lockhart, Untitled, 2019
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Garrett Lockhart, Untitled (detail), 2019
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Parker Kay, Second Lake Island Struck by Lightning, 2019
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Parker Kay, Second Lake Island Struck by Lightning (detail), 2019
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Parker Kay, Jeanette Island, 2019
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Parker Kay, Jeanette Island (detail), 2019
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Parker Kay, The Lighthouse, 2019
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Parker Kay, This Union is Pliable, 2019
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Garrett Lockhart, So much hope I can give, 2019

a short stanza concluding a poem, serving as a dedication or postscript to a prose composition. Or, “the envoi served as a commentary on the preceding stanzas, either reinforcing or ironically undercutting the message of the poem.”

In Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, an envoy is sent from Terra to another planet, which they refer to as Winter, in hopes of swaying them to join into an existing confederation of planets. Before arriving the envoy spends years learning their language and customs for the maybe obvious reason of avoiding offense. In response Winter receives the envoy and offers certain comforts before the slow and long process of negotiating their presence and solicitations. This exchange is much like the ancient Greek custom of xenia: to unexpected travellers you would show niceties and good faith before asking who they were or how they arrived on your shores or whether they had a plot. Ceremony before purpose. As is with the envoi. The initial contact is the poem, the aesthetic object or gesture, whereas the envoi is the belated plea, the intent that is sometimes only scarcely disguised by its lead. The envoi can be an audacious concession of how the aesthetic often fails to neatly arrive at the point. And yet, synchronously, it reinforces its platform, because, of course, the envoi does not exist without the poem. It is so that the failure to be explicit does not define the aesthetic as a failure at all. Or that sometimes decorum is just foreplay.

> Here the pleas vary, surfacing from different species, vocalities, intimacies. To me, there is a hopeful deterioration that says something about the atemporal drift I feel stuck in. Like living in the split between the before and the after of some decisive (and I can’t help but think cataclysmic) event, still obscured from view.

— Kate Kolberg

17.3.19 — 13.4.19

Sara Kay Maston, Garrett Lockhart, Parker Kay

Curated by Kate Kolberg

SIBLING

'Old Sun, New Sun', Group Show Curated by Andrew Sung Taek Ingersoll at Et al., S

'The Houses Of The Serpent Bearer. The 9th House' by Mónica Mays & Flora Yin-Wong

'Dream Archipelago', Group Show Curated by Sergey Guskov at Smena, Kazan

'Eternal Flame', Group Show at Shore, Vienna

'Cosmovisions', Group Show at Medusa Offspace, Brussels

'No Time To Explain' by Paul Robas at Solito, Naples

'Night Rider' by Yan Posadsky at Devyatnadtsat’, Moscow

'Funding Emotions' by Magnus Frederik Clausen and Kaare Ruud at Cantina, Aarhus

'What I felt for you was love', Group Show at Afternoon Projects, Vancouver

'Mirror Stage' by Bora Akinciturk and Ella Fleck at Shipton, London

‘Millions Now Living Will Never Die!’ by Ian Swanson at Plague Space, Krasnodar

'VEGAN' by Jack Jubb at house of spouse, Vienna

'Fresh Hell' by Jonah Pontzer at Rose Easton, London

'It's quite like Guggenheim', Group Show at Ringcenter 1, Berlin

'OUTER DARKNESS', Off-Site Project by Allyson Packer in 1698 GALISTEO, SANTA FE

'mareas' by Elizabeth Burmann at Galeria Patricia Ready, Santiago

'Vape Cloud Premonition' by Sam Hutchinson at Forth, Nottingham

'Punch-Drunk' by Yutaro Ishikawa at LAID BUG, Tokyo

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