Christian Giroux & Daniel Young

Christian Giroux and Daniel Young create large-scale sculptures as well as videos and drawings. Their body of work includes architectural proposals for public spaces and scale replicas of Cold War era satellites. In Boole, a recent series of sculptures, the duo combines brightly-coloured prefabricated sheet metal with pieces of Ikea furniture. The series exists in conversation with the spirit of modernism and its computer-driven forms. The works fuse objects from the domestic realm with an industrial mode of manufacturing – the world of the commodity and the component. Guelph-based Christian Giroux and Toronto-based Daniel Young have collaborated since 2001. Their work has been featured in solo-shows, including Access & Excel at YYZ, which coincided with Cosmos, Alouette & IDCSP at Diaz Contemporary in 2006.  Recent group exhibitions include: We Can Do This Now at the Power Plant in 2006.  Giroux and Young also recently received the Lee Center Sculpture Commission from the City of Toronto for Reticulated Gambol in 2007-08.