About the Exhibition

My work deals with the relationship that architecture has to history and to an imagined space. I use unrelated objects at different scales, alongside architectural features to change the symbolism of both objects. I combine unrelated images in a uneven scale as a way to draw similarities and contrasts between the two that would not seem evident at first glance. The disproportionate scale of a natural and man made objects implies a different hierarchy. When the hierarchy is changed the relationship between the objects is changed as well.

Artist Bio: Joel Qualleis a Calgary based artist who is a recent graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design majoring in Print Media. His recent works deal with architectural elements that pay homage to diagrammatic renderings.