• Gabriel Orozco Sleeping Leaves (Hojas durmiendo) 1990. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.

    Gabriel Orozco Sleeping Leaves (Hojas durmiendo) 1990. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.

Exhibition

Figures of Sleep

17 Feb 2018 – 3 Mar 2018

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Free

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Art Museum at the University of Toronto

Toronto
Ontario, Canada

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Figures of Sleep, a major international exhibition, considers the cultural anxieties manifest in the popular and critical imagination around the collapsing biological function of sleep under economic, social and technological transformation.

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If the night was the space of mystic quandary, and a creative catalyst and spiritual and cultural resource, today’s globalized capitalism and market and military demands for 24/7 service hours are stretching human body and mind in unprecedented ways. Is sleep in crisis? Exceedingly, artists have adopted the motif of sleep as a cipher for material, aesthetic, existential and political considerations of these urgent cultural concerns.

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Sarah Robayo Sheridan

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Rodney Graham

Tehching Hsieh

Mladen Stilinović

Hassan Khan

Gabriel Orozco

Rebecca Belmore

On Kawara

Jon Sasaki

Jasmeen Patheja

Peter Fischli & David Weiss

Chris Burden

Sophie Calle
Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman

Chris Curreri
Liz Magor

Liz Magor

Francis Alÿs

Louise Bourgeois

Ron Mueck

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