Faculty of Art

Integrated Media

Emily Honderich

Artist Statement

This Toronto-based Freelance Artist and Graphic Design Student has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Her work offers perspective into a variety of themes that is accessible to a wide range of audiences. It can be found at www.emilyhonderich.ca

“Emily Honderich (°1983, Toronto, Canada) creates media artworks, paintings, photos and drawings. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, she formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious composition process behind random works. She considers art making a craft executed using clear legal rules that should always refer to social reality.My work always needs to show complete structure, resulting in my ability to easily imagine their interpretation without being hindered by historical reality. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the kingdom of experience, she brings the viewer into the stream of daily events. My works are based on formal associations, which open a unique poetic vein. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly inevitable reality are questioned with a subtle minimalistic approach, which is restricted in time.My works demonstrate how life extends beyond its subjective limits and challenges the notions we continually reconstruct between Self and Others and between ourselves. Her practice provides a proper set of allegorical tools for manoeuvring within a pseudo-minimalist approach in the world of media art: which works resound and resonate with images made from imagination. The movements of humans and objects in my work reveal a relationship between motion and sound. By emphasizing aesthetics, she wants the viewer to become part of the art as an added component. Art is entertainment: to be able to touch the work, as well as to interact with the result when appropriate.”