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Three Dimensions showcases the multidisciplinary art practice of Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins, combining painting, sculpture, kinetics, interactivity, virtual reality, and video. First exhibited by Contemporary Calgary in 2023-24, the exhibition toured to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 2024-25 and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in 2025-26. The installations in Three Dimensions blend conceptual, interactive experiences. Together, they explore themes of authenticity, agency, and the digital age through performativity and interactivity. They reference both high and popular culture, blending science fiction, politics, and current events in a pop-minimalist setting. For Marman and Borins, the aim is to disrupt traditional notions of reality – whether authentic or synthetic – and present dimensions that challenge the viewer’s perception, blurring the line between “audience” and “participant.” In this visually rich publication, essays by curators Kanika Anand, Ray Cronin, David Diviney, and Philip Monk accompany a rich panoply of the installations and their individual components in situ, prompting contemplation about visual language, mass media, consumerism, and the ways that images circulate in the information age.

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Kanika Anand is Senior Curator at Contemporary Calgary and co-curator of the Indian Ceramics Triennale. She has worked extensively with galleries and institutions across North America, France, and India. Ray Cronin is a writer, curator, and Director of Exhibitions, Collections and Curatorial Initiatives at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. From 2001 to 2015 he worked at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia as Curator and as Director and CEO. Cronin is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the University of Windsor, and the Getty Museum Leadership Institute. In 2025 he was named a Fellow of the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. He is the founding curator of the Sobey Art Award and the author of fifteen books on Canadian art. David Diviney is the Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. His interest in the expanded histories and legacies of conceptual art has led to several exhibitions, such as David Askevold: Once Upon a Time in the East (2011), The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968–1978 (2016), and Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: No More Boring Art (2025). His writing on the art of the 1960s and ‘70s, contemporary art, and visual culture has been published widely in journals and catalogues. Philip Monk, former Director of the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto, has written fourteen books over his career, as well as scores of articles, reviews, and essays, plus dozens of catalogues on international and Canadian artists. Dedicated to setting in place the theoretical conditions for writing the history of contemporary Canadian Art, and of Toronto in particular, Monk’s writing set the terms of debate on art in Canada for decades. His most recent book, Is Toronto Burning? is a history of the conflicted creation of Toronto’s downtown art scene in the late 1970s.

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