PDA Lovers

David Armstrong Six Gabriele Beverage Chris Coy Celia Perrin Sidarous Janet Werner

Presented by Parisian Laundry

"I once produced an attachment so forceful it developed a will of its own

As I moved through it, I experienced a thick and humid sensation that cushioned my pores

My breath grew shorter and my heart somehow managed to slide lower and lower into my body

I began perceiving my surroundings in the most lucid, rosy delusion

And as my sticky fingers pulled the object of my desires towards me, I moistened my lips

The feeling was pleasurable, but mostly grotesque."

- Adam Gill

The exhibition includes works that partake in the romanticizing of attachment and desire. Nevertheless, the selected artists simultaneously acknowledge points of fracture and collapse within saccharine narratives through various forms of mediation and the implementation of cliché.

Parisian Laundry would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support.