Embassy
Terence Gower
Ongoing Exhibition
May 03 – Aug 11 2024
Terence Gower, Embassy, 2024. Installation view: The Power Plant, Toronto, 2024. Photo: LF Documentation.
- Presenting Sponsor
- Supporting Donor
Debra and Barry Campbell
- Supported by
- Shipping and Logistics
- CURATORS
Adelina Vlas, Head of Curatorial Affairs
Frances Loeffler, Curator of Exhibitions
The Power Plant is thrilled to present Terence Gower: Embassy: the largest survey in Canada of the New York-based artist. Gower, who has lived and worked internationally for many years, employs a range of media to investigate postwar material and intellectual histories, particularly as they connect to art and architecture.
Terence Gower: Embassy will feature over a decade-worth of work stemming from his investigation into the diplomatic architecture of the United States. Four multi-part installations form a larger study of American embassy buildings that have played important roles in recent international events in Baghdad, Havana, and Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), as well as one unbuilt project for Ottawa. These expansive artistic constellations, including archival documents, sculptures, videos, and works on paper, are the outcome of the artist’s extensive research process.
Gower considers the exhibition itself as an embassy sent from the past, from a formative period in US history where much of the current geopolitical landscape was formed. Considering the urgencies and uncertainties of our current moment, Terence Gower: Embassy asks how we might work with history to better understand the present.
The artist would like to acknowledge Canada Council for the Arts for its support of the new work The Lost Embassy, 2024.
Terence Gower, Embassy, 2024. Installation view: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2024. Photo: LF Documentation.
Terence Gower, Embassy, 2024. Installation view: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2024. Photo: LF Documentation.
Terence Gower, Baghdad Case Study, 2012–2024. Courtesy the artist and LABOR, Mexico City. Installation view: Embassy, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2024. Photo: LF Documentation.
Terence Gower, Embassy, 2024. Installation view: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2024. Photo: LF Documentation.
Terence Gower, Façade (Transparent), 2024. Suspended stainless steel sculpture, aircraft cable. Commissioned by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, 2024. Courtesy the artist and LABOR, Mexico City. Photo: LF Documentation.
Terence Gower, detail of Façade (Transparent), 2024. Suspended stainless steel sculpture, aircraft cable. Commissioned by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, 2024. Courtesy the artist and LABOR, Mexico City. Photo: LF Documentation.
Terence Gower, Embassy, 2024. Installation view: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2024. Photo: LF Documentation.
Terence Gower, Havana Case Study, 2016–2024. Courtesy the artist and LABOR, Mexico City. Installation view: Embassy, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2024. Photo: LF Documentation.
Terence Gower, detail of Political Services Documentation Table, 2018–2024. Courtesy the artist and LABOR, Mexico City. Photo: LF Documentation.
Terence Gower, Embassy, 2024. Installation view: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2024. Photo: LF Documentation.
Terence Gower, (Havana) Modules, 2016–2018. Two steel and wicker sculptures. Courtesy the artist and LABOR, Mexico City. Installation view: Embassy, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2024. Photo: LF Documentation.
Terence Gower, Embassy, 2024. Installation view: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2024. Photo: LF Documentation.
Terence Gower, Saigon Case Study, 2018–2024. Courtesy the artist and LABOR, Mexico City. Installation view: Embassy, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2024. Photo: LF Documentation.
Terence Gower, Embassy, 2024. Installation view: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2024. Photo: LF Documentation.
About the Artist
Terence Gower
Terence Gower is a Canadian artist working in New York, Mexico City, and France
