Margin of Eras / 2014
In September 2014, CUE infiltrated Toronto’s municipal elections with a surreal brand of artistic intervention, and created a pop-up exhibition to showcase work from artists funded that year.
Exhibition Statement:
Voices from the margins are extremely dangerous. They threaten our comfort, question our systems, our thinking, our programs and our powers. They compromise the foundation of our most sacred social and political realities, and are therefore unilaterally silenced—pushed out of sight by self interest, big money, institutional conditioning, and expensive subscriptions to mediocrity.
Margin of Eras 2014 features a collection of artwork funded by CUE in 2014. From burying photographs in parks, documenting underground rave scenes, and hiding handmade dolls across the city, to scavenging plastic bottles for a masterpiece, and painting frantically through days and nights, CUE artists demonstrate creative innovation amid the adversity that comes with living on the margins, and they exemplify an urgent artistic expression that is often unseen in mainstream art worlds.
