Our October/November artist is Akin St.Clair alum, Yamandu Sztainbok. Yama is an illustrator, cartoonist, and essayist. His piece, “No Room” will be on exhibit in our galleries located at 1485 Dupont and 1747 St. Clair Avenue West over the next two months.

NO ROOM is the transcription of a page remembered from a dream, mistakenly bound in the cover of the Time-Life Library of Art: World of Breughel. The story was about carnivorous rooms which feed upon and assimilate the sedentary-type rooms to which we have become accustomed. Throughout the volume were interspersed twelve pages printed in an invisible ink, which, when exposed to air for twelve seconds would absorb the atmosphere of a room. Thus the dream itself contrived to squander chance for me to transcribe the other pages.

NO ROOM
Ink on paper
2018
dimensions available

To contact the artist:
Instagram: @y.smerdis
#Akinvitrine

Akin Collective + Akin Projects are excited to present our 2018 programming in two Vitrine Galleries located at Akin Dupont and Akin St. Clair. These miniature galleries feature the diverse talent of our members with travelling installations rotating each month. Each artist is featured for the first month at Dupont and second month at St. Clair. For more information about our artists and our programming, join us on Instagram @akinvitrine.

NO ROOM will be on view for the month of October in our Dupont Akin Vitrine Gallery, located in the Clock Factory Building at 1485 Dupont Street (entrance on Campbell Avenue). Find Akin Studio 215 on the second floor and follow the sign into the hallway around the corner. The building is open from 9am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday.

The exhibition will then travel to the Akin St. Clair Vitrine Gallery and be on view for the month of November at 1747 St. Clair Avenue West. Gallery is street level and can be viewed at any time.

For more information about Yamandu and his work, follow our Instagram account @akinvitrine.