Overview
Distinct from the Girardian snob, who slavishly desires only that which is desired by others, the fetishist heeds the call of a genuinely spontaneous impulse that is indifferent to external mediation. Remote from the cerebral desires of the vanities, the fetishist-as-artist, pursues gratification not through passive, mimetic consumption, but through the creative act of automatic transfiguration, a process that sees the mundanities of everyday life-wearing a rain-jacket, spilling chocolate syrup, or traipsing through a muddied field in woefully inadequate footwear-imbued with limitless erotic potential by the fetishist, and limitless poetic potential for artist Brittany Shepherd.
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Biography

Brittany Shepherd (b. 1988) lives and works in Toronto, ON. She received a BFA from Ontario College of Art & Design University. Solo exhibitions include: The Last Laugh, Deli Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico; Phantasmata, Pangée, Montreal, QC (2023), Sub Rosa, In Lieu, Los Angeles, CA, (2022); Deliverance, MAMOTH, London, UK (2022); Waltz of the Mired, tilling, Montreal, QC (2021); Façades, at Bunker 2 as a part of Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, ON (2018); Not Too High, Not That Low, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON (2018); The Ghost in the Machine with Aleksander Hardashnakov and Peter Kay, Motel, Brooklyn, NY (2017); of Flight and of Leak, Roberta Pelan, Toronto (2016); 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, ON (2016); Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, ON (2016). Group exhibitions include: Wanderlust, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, USA (2023); Its My Party (I Can Cry If I want To), GUTS Gallery, London, UK (2023); Material Art Fair, CDMX, Mexico, Someday, New York, USA (2022); All I remember now:, In Lieu, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Not Too High, Not That Low, Division Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2018); The Ghost in the Machine, Motel in Brooklyn, New York, USA (2017), amongst others.

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