Visual Artist, Toronto
Iris moved to Canada in 2001. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and has exhibited widely throughout Europe. She is best known for her hyperrealistic, narrative installations. Locations have included rented apartments, hotel rooms, and an entire residential house; most recently she created a major intervention into The Grange, a National Historic Site of Canada and part of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Visitors explore the spaces in which the work and lives of Iris’s fictitious characters have unfolded. Through non-verbal cues and detailed material evidence, they are drawn into a personal position vis-à-vis the themes of the work. Thus Canadian philosopher Mark Kingwell has coined the term “haptic conceptual art” for this new genre. A complementary part of Iris’s work includes interactive installations that explore human existence and biography, such as archives of human traces, interventions into hotel rooms, and repurposing galleries for social functions.
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HI Iris
I don’t know if you left yet, so I’m send this email to you this way as well:
Hi Iris
That looks like an exciting adventure! I can’t wait to see what you return with ! I will follow the journey!
FYI, you might have seen this somewhat hokey “next great artist” reality TV program.
My niece, Peregrine, was runner up (no $$, just fame…!). She did some nice barfing illustrations!
I’ll recommend two interesting reads for your journey, both very different. You may have read
them – if not, I think you’ll like them. The first deals with art, city development, and philosophy.
The second with immigration.
1) Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
2) “Half of Yellow Sun” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Have a great trip – and please let me know when you next show your work.
Best regards,
Benson
Benson Honig Ph.D.
Teresa Cascioli Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership; Editor, ET&P
DeGroote School of Business
liebe Iris,
lebe Deine Kunst und spiegle sie in Deinem Unternehmen, der Fahrt in die Antarctis, wieder – und umgekehrt.
Ich denk an Dich, Deine Jutta