All Conditioned Things: Jared Boechler and Nic Wilson

October 01, 2024 12:00 am Tue. Oct 01, 2024 to Wed. Oct 23, 2024 @ Watrous Art & Cultural Centre


Education Packages: AllConditionedThingsEdGuide.pdf
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Jared Boechler 'The Night Tourist' Oil on linen 12.5" x 9.5" 2020 SK Arts Permanent Collection

The exhibition All Conditioned Things presents the work of Saskatchewan artists, Jared Boechler and Nic Wilson, whose subject matter is embedded with symbolism or signifiers to explore concepts of mortality and impermanence. Both artists present mundane objects within their compositions, objects of domesticity, consumption and memorialization, many that are linked historically to traditional vanitas or memento mori paintings - including candles, ceramic vessels and flowers - that represent the passage of time, aging, decay, the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. Their compositions explore the values and narratives that these objects come to symbolize.

This exhibition is curated by the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery and toured through OSAC's Arts on the Move program.