Exhibit date: Aug. 6 - 27, Tuesday - Saturday, Closed on Sun - Mon & holidays
Gallery hours: 10am - 4pm
Aritst reception: Saturday, Aug. 16th, 1pm - 3pm
About the exhibit:
To feel is horrible.
It's exhausting, ridiculous and it's uncomfortable.
And yet, we get excited, we cry, we dream and we try again.
Our heart is the organ we see as a symbol of everything we feel; it's perhaps the most vulnerable object we possess. If it was a someone, it would fall in love extremely easily, would cry for no reason, get excited about everything, and break over stupid things. If we think of it as the center of our emotions, it’d be the most intense and irrational creature in the world. Someone who experiences everything to the limit, even though it is not built to endure that much.
For this series of cartoon-style digital illustrations, I decided to keep things simpler than usual, focusing on the idea rather than the details.
It's, at the same time, an ode to all my hearts. To the ones I've been and the ones I still am. One that can't stop to feel hope even if it breaks again and again. To the one that's always in my throat, racing a mile a minute.
I feel grief for one that no longer wants to feel anything. Now that I'm an adult, I fear that’s what I desire more and more. It's petrifying to feel, it's spine-chilling to be vulnerable, and honestly we become cowards as adults. It's something I hate about it. What a sad reality where feeling too much of something is wrong. I refuse to live in a world like this. To feel is to resist.
Perhaps feeling is horrible. It's exhausting. Ridiculous. It’s uncomfortable. But it’s what makes us want to try again. I put a face on it. And sometimes, tiny legs.
About the artist:
Dieddo is a visual artist, illustrator, and painter originally from Mexico, working in Kamloops, Canada. They graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Thompson Rivers University, where they were recognized with the Ted Smith award in painting in 2023.
With over nine years of experience in digital illustration, they have worked for a variety of clients, creating everything from narrative and editorial illustration to artwork for independent film, publications, and other commercial projects. Their work combines the intimate with the fantastical and the bizarre with the emotional.
In addition to their illustration practice, Dieddo develops a body work focused on visual narrative, with influences from magical realism, contemporary art and melancholy. They’ve exhibited their work in Mexico and Canada, both in solo and group exhibitions, and collaborated with art collectives and community spaces.
For Dieddo, art is a way to connect, reflect and heal. Always through tenderness and absurdity.
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