16 different posters were printed as part of a poster series for the Circle Jerk, "an ad hoc group of queer artists lending each other a hand." The posters were scattered around Toronto as part of a street campaign during Art Toronto in 2009, where a limited edition portfolio was also sold.

In Handle, a selection of red glass vases is photographed as they are held and prodded by a human hand. A dialogue between animate and inanimate forms is created as the hands press against the rigid glass. A kind of perversion occurs, and the openings, already somewhat akin to the human body, become more obviously personified orifices.

Chris Curreri is a Toronto-based artist who works primarily with photography and film.  Taking the form of looping film projections and photographic suites, his work focuses on the idea of transformation, where the "decisive moment" of the photograph is in some way extended, or the fixed identity of an object is elaborated upon.  A given entity – a found photograph, a ready-made object, or a cultural product often becomes subject to performance.  The work points to the idea that ideas themselves are malleable, that it is we, in our actions, who determine our relationship to things.

Curreri is a graduate of Bard College’s MFA Program, and completed a BFA in Photography Studies at Ryerson University. Recent exhibitions include: Circa 1960 at Gallery 44 in Toronto, ON; Bicycle Race at Language Plus in Alma, QC; and Perceptions and their Arousal at Agnes Etherington Art Center in Kingston, ON. Recent film screenings include: Image Forum Festival, Japan; Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, Argentina; and the Toronto International Film Festival, Canada.

SELECT RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2009
'Chris Curreri: Handle', Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada

2006
'Chris Curreri: Circa 1960 (Part 1)', Gallery 44 Center for Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
'Chris Curreri', Photography/Images Festival, Toronto, Canada