Brandon Poole is a Master of Visual Studies candidate (2020) at the University of Toronto. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria. He was shortlisted for both the 2016 and 2017 Presentation House Gallery’s Phil B. Lind Emerging Artist prize. and is a recent recipient of a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant.
Works
The Drowned World at Cinesphere
Location: Ontario Place - Cinesphere
Guest curated by Charles Stankievech. During the Biennial, the Cinesphere becomes a world within a world, merging film and sound art with scent and changing atmospheric conditions. From cosmological origin stories, to a future in which civilization is extinct, The Drowned World contrasts deep time with the decline of global ecologies. The…