York University
Simon Solis was born in Chile and raised in Toronto. He is completing his degree in the Department of Visual Art and Art History at York University. His photographic work examines museological practices of curatorial narratives and cultural preservation. Over the past year Simon has interned as a photographer at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection through the Mobilizing Inuit Cultural Heritage program and has contributed written work to the Family Camera Network exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum. These experiences inform his photographic investigations into themes of heritage, power, and identity within the constructs of art. By reinterpreting notions of the institutionalized art object, he explores concepts of cultural inheritance and isolation, authenticity and reproduction, and presence and absence. Solis references archival systems and the photographic techniques implemented within them to investigate the interweaving relationship between museum, object, and spectator.
Simon Solis, Condition Report, February 1984, 2017, photograph
