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Visiting Artist Series

Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins

EVENT LOCATION:
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Theatre 

Event Date & Time:
6:00 p.m., Thursday, January 23, 2025.

Artist Statement

Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins will present to NSCAD faculty, staff, and students regarding their current exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Three Dimensions.

Three Dimensions is an exhibition showcasing the multidisciplinary art practice of Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins. The show features three installations: Balancing Act, THX2020, and ABCD, which combine painting, sculpture, kinetics, interactivity, virtual reality, and video. Taken together, Three Dimensions emphasizes viewer participation and explores themes of authenticity, agency, and the digital age through performativity and interactivity. 

Like many of their previous works, the installation references high and popular culture, combining science fiction, politics, and current events in a pop-minimalist setting where symbols are equalized in hierarchy.

For Marman and Borins, the exhibition aims to disrupt traditional notions of reality – whether authentic or synthetic – and present dimensions that challenge the viewer’s perception. With an emphasis on engagement, the artists prompt contemplation around visual language, mass media, consumerism, and the ways in which images circulate in the information age.

About The Artist(s)

Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins have co-authored artwork since 2000, exhibiting in galleries and museums in Canada and internationally. In 2008, they were featured in the watershed exhibition Caught in the Act: Viewer as Performer at the National Gallery of Canada, a sculpture/installation survey of 11 major Canadian artists. Formative exhibitions include Project for a New American Century at the Art Gallery of York University, and The Collaborationists which toured to five North American museums. Their latest exhibition Three Dimensions produced by Contemporary Calgary, currently on view at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and then travelling to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, will tour through 2026. Marman holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, and Borins holds a BA in Art History from McGill University. Both artists graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2001, where they began practicing together.