Please join us on September 18th for an artist talk with Victoria Monaco! Monaco recently completed a 3-month OCADU Career Launcher Residency at TAIS. She will be discussing her latest work, The Presence in the Window.

TAIS is thrilled to have presented this residency in partnership with OCADU’s Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers @ocaducead

When: September 18th at 7:00PM
Where: 1411 Dufferin St. Unit B
Free and open to the public

To see more of Victoria’s work, check out @expressionlessart on Instagram, or on her website at www.expressionless.art

Project Summary
The Presence in the Window, is about a young woman who has a fear of being watched. As she tries to go about her daily routines she becomes increasingly afraid about a presence watching her. From her fear she experiences nightmares and hallucinations about who the presence is and what their intentions are. Is the presence just her fear or is the presence really there?

Artist Biography
Victoria Monaco is an Italian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist with a focus on animation, illustration, new media, performance, and poetry. Her work acts as a confession of her process of becoming intimate with the human psyche, the world of dreams, and womanhood. She explores these themes in her research based art practice with focal points on the philosophical and the psychological aspects of their nature. She examines herself through this lens in an attempt to detach from her experiences to freely express them and to experiment with which mediums and materials are most compatible with those expressions. She studied Integrated Media and Experimental Animation at OCAD University.