“To look at the surface of things is not enough: engaging with the objects meticulously crafted by Jennifer Laflamme, the Toronto-based artist otherwise known as Mifi Mifi, is a necessarily sensuous, embodied act, an invitation to touch the surface of an object in order to be pulled directly into its intricate world.”
Dhvani Ramanujam
Dhvani Ramanujam is a Toronto-based emerging curator and writer currently pursuing a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at York University. Her research looks at the phenomenological experience and installation of contemporary art and moving image at the intersection of theories of aesthetics, materiality, and the body/subject.
“How does the surface shape engage with the material world? How do some surfaces come to be considered permanent while others permeable? How does the idea of a surface translate to the digital realm? How did the surface become understood as a metaphor for a (lack of) profundity of knowledge? How is the surface implicated in the status of the image itself, as a support or as a medium?”
