By Caroline Oliver, Director of Development and Marketing
Marc Ngui and Magda Wojtyra, creators of the Let’s Glow exhibition currently on view at the Gallery, shared their views on art and life at a recent artist’s talk at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. The duo’s ideas are inspired by a blend of Eastern and Western philosophies, science, comics, an interest in unrestricting, non-hierarchical rhizome structures and world-wide travels that were motivated by a desire to eliminate routine.
As Marc and Magda see it:
No one is in charge. All ant colonies, like people colonies, are 60 percent inefficient.
Drawing became a tool for understanding, a visual language that effectively describes abstract ideas.
We need to understand and accept there can be two opposing positions in your mind, to be able to hold those paradoxes in our heads, and not to be reductive in our thinking.
Art is their way of adjusting the world and cheering people up.
People can make their own stories, which puts them on the side of the maker, not the consumer.
The real power of art is in the making of it.
Just do it – and what you end up with is exactly what you are supposed to have.
Be brave, forthcoming, and cheerful!
Learn more about their work and world views on their website, the Land of Happy Sleepy and come and see their work for yourself, on view @ KW|AG through March 4.
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