Only Dog Can Judge Me

­Only Dog Can Judge Me
Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter + Walter Scott
AKA artist-run + Untitled Art Society

Platforms Project
Athens School of Fine Arts
Pireos, Ag. Ioannis Rentis 182 33, Athens, Greece
May 17 – 20, 2018

Dogs are man’s best friend but Man doesn’t exist (at least not anymore, but probably never) so let’s agree here and now to make the logical induction that dogs are everyone’s best friend, and one of the only good things left in a world on fire. Ours is a generation that has dogs, small rental apartments and depression: one that thirsts for change but is perennially paralyzed by what we’ve inherited. But a generation isn’t a real thing either. It’s only a slice of time that we all, through happenstance, happen to share, to be entangled in together. Dogs are a salve though. Just to conjure one in mind. Just to smell the top of her head. Maybe we can make it after all.

Only Dog Can Judge Me is an exhibition of drawing, beading and text work by Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter and Walter Scott, presented at Platforms Project in Athens, Greece, by AKA artist-run and Untitled Art Society.

Kablusiak is an Inuvialuk artist based in Mohkinstsis and holds a BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts. They are represented by Jarvis Hall Gallery. Their work has been acquired by public and private collections across so-called Canada. They are the recipient of several awards including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Young Artist Prize (2017), the Primary Colours Emerging Artist Award (2018), and was short-listed for the Sobey Art Award (2019).

Walter Scott is a Kahnawake-born interdisciplinary artist working across writing, video, performance and sculpture. In 2011, while living in Montréal, he began the comic book series Wendy, exploring the narrative of a fictional young woman living in an urban centre who aspires to global success and art stardom but whose dreams are perpetually derailed. Wendy has been featured in Modern Painters, Canadian Art, Mousse Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. Recent Exhibitions include the 2016 Montreal Biennale, Le Grand Balcon, Musée d’art contemporain; Big Toe, Giant Steps at Occidental Temporary, Paris; and Ambivalent Pleasures: Vancouver Special, Vancouver Art Gallery.