This exhibition is part of collective effort with four other arts organizations to examine the last
ten years of Gubash’s practice. Each curator worked with a particular focus, be it Gubash’s
sustained use of family and friends, or in SAAG’s case, his adoption and adaptation of the
sitcom and other media formats. Newspaper headlines from the Calgary Herald are revisited
in earlier projects like Playing Possum and Re-enacting Tragedies While My Parents Look On,
while his signature work, Born Rich, Getting Poorer, presents six episodes of a DIY sitcom
positioning Gubash and his family in a series of mishaps both banal and burlesque. With the
addition of ‘fake’ paintings, web-projects, newspaper interventions and comic strips, Remote
Viewing: True Stories is a comprehensive look at a practice that shares the private matters of
a family in formats that are distinctly public. In light of reality television, YouTube, Facebook
and other contexts where intimate narratives are played out in mass media, Gubash’s work
participates in a timely discourse about the construction and performance of our identity, our
history and the relationships that bind them.

Born in Novi Sad (Serbia) and living in Montréal (Québec) since 2005, Milutin Gubash has
mounted exhibitions in Québec, Canada, the United States, and Europe, including recent solo
shows in Montréal at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (“LOTS”, 2007), and Optica
(“Born Rich, Getting Poorer”, 2009), Galerie 3015 in Paris and RLBQ in Marseille (“Which Way
to the Bastille?”, 2008). A Situational Performance is a ten-year survey exhibition presented
by Rodman Hall Art Centre (St. Catharine’s ON), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa ON),
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (Kitchener ON), Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge AB),
and the Musée d’art de Joliette (Joliette QC). A major monographic publication created in
collaboration with these five institutions will be released in late 2012.

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