The exhibition runs from July 20th – 22nd, 2018.
An opening will be held Friday July 20th, from 6 – 10 pm.

In a departure from her earlier work, Molčan’s newest body of work focuses on self-identification in the age of social media, heavily influenced by her own experiences and self-portraiture. With a range of work relating to trauma, relationships, sex and redaction of public image.

In her essay focusing on the idea of being an artist under the microscope of a digital world, Molčan writes:

“We deliver an edited version of ourselves so we still appear real within the virtual world, hidden behind the safety of a multitude of screens. Social media is an endless performance, and impacts our identity, relationships, and selective memory. Is the self a fundamental lie? Are we simply cold and calculating? How does trauma factor in to the way we curate ourselves? What happens when curation exits the virtual realm?

As an artist, I have become endlessly fascinated with this mask I wear – the inescapable reality of a millennial. The disingenuous mask of vulnerability and feeling I display online to seem personable; the casual indifference I display to the physical world. My curation of self is far more prevalent offline than online, so I question if I can merge these into a single identity. My calculated performance of self is dictated through my experiences, including physical and emotional trauma; creating an intimate void that I seek to feel with likes and comments in the digital realm.”

About Sára Molčan
Sára Molčan [Canadian, b. 1986] uses the lens of social media to scrutinize the world through her larger than life oil paintings. Her figurative work borrows from the digital world by mimicking light leaks and glitches, leaving a palette that is both diluted and vibrant – capturing the vibe of artistically filtered Instagram images. Coupled with internet slang and a scrutinizing look at her own redaction of identity, Molčan’s work gives the false impression of honesty and reality in a world that is nothing but. Molčan graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2015, currently living and working in Vancouver.