Puppet, 2008

Diaz Contemporary, Toronto Estate of Robert Noakes

Chris Curreri’s “Puppet”  photographs capture a man contorting around and using a single red vase in various ways. These photographs capture a performance, as the vase holds the place of whatever the person decides to enact with it, symbolic of attempts to define relationships, forced interactions and redefinition. This project highlights a thread in Curreri's work that “points to the idea that ideas themselves are malleable and that it is we, in our actions, who determine our relationship to things.”