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  • Wanda Koop, Barcode Face, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 84 × 60".

    Wanda Koop, Barcode Face, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 84 × 60".

    Wanda Koop and Oli Epp

    Blouin Division | Montréal

    It’s hard to tell if Wanda Koop’s paintings are deceptively—or disturbingly—simple. Rectilinear portals, Xs, and bar codes float on watery horizons limned with light. These symbols don’t so much beckon us into the gloaming but get in the way, reminding us that the enigmatic shorelines over which they hover are too flat for us to enter. Captured between dusk and eventide, Koop’s lakeshores duet between graphic figures and idyllic grounds. Waves lap silently along placid embankments in these images, yet the artist incorporates subtle reminders of our destruction of them. But how to object to such

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