RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE

Kieran Dick: Bleigießen [lead casting]
July 24 – August 25, 2013
Student Gallery

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The video Bleigießen [lead casting] presents an exaggerated moment within an old German New Year's Eve tradition of pouring a spoonful of molten lead into cold water. Upon contact the lead solidifies to form an abstract shape to be used as an interpretable form to extrapolate one's fortune for the New Year through symbolism and imagination. Containing elements of family tradition, science, technology, minimalism and documentary, this is an encouragement to contemplate the future.

Photograph Caption: Kieran Dick, Bleigießen [lead casting], still from HD video, 2013