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Tegan Forbes
FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY

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March 28 – April 01 2007
Vernissage 5-7pm Friday, March 30

The greatest crimes in this world are not by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules

The exhibition titled FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY is a collection of work that derives from three years of traveling
and studying a diversity of urban locations. This work is constructed from bearing witness to the non-verbal
languages of expression from Montreal graffiti to memorials in Germany. Tegan reworks images of commonplace
locations into subversive critiques that promote awareness of the subjective experience of public space. How is a
space marked with the presence of human intervention? Embodiments of these locations portray her personal
connection to movement, memory and documentation.

Contemplate the varied forms Tegan reveals to be her art practice from large format prints capturing projections of
intimate vistas on to her body subsequently manipulated further into postcards, slides and the common tools of
tourist memorabilia. Circulating these tokens back into the public domain offer one the ability to decode personal
narratives through urban spaces cultivating an echo of memory through trace. FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY invites
the viewer to contemplate how such marks of human touch, often ignored by an area’s inhabitants, develop into an
experiential vocabulary that can transform our perceptions of public space. Recording her private presence in these
public locations Tegan reengages with urban spaces through subversive acts of intervention.

Tuesday 27th March 3pm – Thesis Defense
La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse
4296 Blvd. Saint-Laurent
Montreal Quebec Canada
514-871-0268
galerie@lacentrale.org
www.lacentrale.org

Pictures from the opening night March 30th 2007
La Centrale Galerie - FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY
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