Linda Briskin

The series Fleurs speaks to memory and nostalgia (from the Greek nostos, for homecoming, and algos for pain.) Fraying edges and continuity. The images combine family photos, sheets of old music, and dried flowers. They capture the ephemeral passing of time with faint musical notes. Salon de momoire invents a space of memory through photo montage. 

The ghostly presence of les yeux hints at a visual puzzle as the images of Fleur de musique,  Fleurs de famille and Fleurs de lumière echo and mirror each other—each a leaf  from an album of memories.  The dried flowers invoke the coded language of floriography and the symbolism of flowers. 

Interrogating old photographs highlights the permeability among the known, remembered and imagined, and offers an opportunity to talk back to and excavate the images.

Linda Briskin is a writer and fine art photographer. She is inspired by the fluid crossover between the imagined and the real, the natural and the constructed, and the authentic and the fabricated.  She embraces the fictive rather than representational. 

She exhibits widely, has had numerous solo exhibitions, and participated in many group shows. Briskin’s images have been chosen for many online juried shows. Recently for  Urban Landscapes  sponsored by NY Photo Curator (Honourable Mention), Abandoned at Chateau Gallery (Kentucky) and  The Same But Different Exhibition sponsored by NY Center for Photographic Art (Honorable Mention.) Her photographs have been published widely in literary journals and camera magazines: recently, in PhotoEd  Canadian Camera, The Poeming Pidgeon, South85, Humana Obscura, and Masque & Spectacle. In 2023 The Commotion  chose Sisters to represente in their gallery.  Upcoming in 2024 is a solo exhibit at The Rushton  in Toronto.

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Contact: lbriskin@yorku.ca
Website: lindabriskinphotography.com
IG: @linda.briskin

May 15 to May 26th, 2024
918 Bathurst Street, Toronto
Sun and Star Rooms

Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12pm to 5pm
Opening reception: Thursday, May 16th from 6-9pm
Artist talk: Saturday, May 18th from 1-3pm