Thérèse Mastroiacovo

Thérèse Mastroiacovo’s work is about art itself as an idea, artistic process itself as methodology. It is about the precarious relationship art has to its own definition, open, half open, or slightly open for re-classification at any given time. The varying degrees of openness create space in-between, a space that gives way to meanderings, processes, and procedures. Her work is situated here, in a space of potential created in the middle of existing structures. It is this – this large, large thing stated so, so plainly – that makes her work both familiar and unknowable.

Thérèse Mastroiacovo would like to thank the CALQ. Thank you also to Sarah Greig, Milutin Gubash, Marc Couroux, Catherine Bodmer, Richard Deschênes, Anthony Burnham, Juliana Pivato, Yann Pocreau, David Armstrong Six, Iliana Antonova, Filomena Mastroiacovo, Claudette Mastroiacovo.