Geoffrey Farmer | The Big Kitchen

Join Catriona Jeffries Gallery for the latest solo exhibition by '92 alumnus Geoffrey Farmer. Recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award (2008), and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2014), Farmer will represent Canada at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

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A sentence of a vagueness that is violence is authority and a mission and stumbling and also certainly also a prison.

Calmness, calm is beside the plate and in way in. There is no turn in terror.

There is no volume in sound.

There is coagulation in cold and there is none in prudence. Something is preserved and the evening is long and the colder spring has sudden shadows in a sun. All the stain is tender and lilacs really lilacs are disturbed. Why is the perfect reestablishment practiced and prized, why is it composed. The result the pure result is juice and size and baking and exhibition and nonchalance and sacrifice and volume and a section in division and the surrounding recognition and horticulture and no murmur. This is a result. There is no superposition and circumstance, there is hardness and a reason and the rest and remainder. There is no delight and no mathematics.

Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons, 1914