Getting grubby with Ian Indiano’s SOOT

Brazilian born Ian Indiano has something important to show you at TAP. SOOT, features a small serious of Indiano’s charcoal drawings. The dark, expressive pieces pull depth from the corners of darkness. The exhibition delves into the elemental nature of carbon as the building block of all life and existence, and where all things return when burned down. 

Indiano demonstrates one of the few traits shared by local artists in London, Ontario artists: the grittiness of our city. The portraits on display all have their mouths agape in a silent scream. It could be despair, or rage, or the final cry before burning down to ash. It could be the screams of the people living on Dundas Place, outside of TAP. It could be any of us. 

SOOT will be on view at TAP until September 28th.