{"product_id":"in-the-smoke-the-body-remembers-itself-37315","title":"In the smoke, the body remembers itself","description":"\u003cp\u003eIan Stone's meticulously rendered still life and figurative paintings explore queer memory and camp through carefully arranged collections of ornamental and personal objects, with the body positioned as a site through which identity is formed, expressed, and remembered. Informed by traditions of 19th-century Realism and Western art history, his oil paintings and drawings are rich in detail and cultural awareness, reflecting how femininity, longing, and performance shape contemporary queer life. Paintings are unframed, while works on paper are framed under glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist's desccription:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA family photo album lies open on the table. It belonged to my grandmother, a deeply religious woman, and within it she kept a reproduction of The Last Supper—an image held as devotion rather than illustration. Set here, the album becomes both relic and offering\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Throughout history, the table has been a site of meeting: where bodies were fed, faith was rehearsed, judgment delivered, vows made, and losses quietly counted. It is where belief enters the ordinary. Here, that surface gathers what was inherited and what was endured. Above it hangs a pearl, suspended like a measure—a symbol of purity that also reads as appraisal, watchful and unresolved. Below, a dead butterfly rests against the page, its tenderness fixed. Smoke drifts upward from what has already burned, tracing the passage between body and memory. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe table holds these elements together without resolving them. In the smoke, the body remembers not only what was believed, but how belief was lived—through touch, ritual, silence, and survival.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Ian Stone, 2025\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e_____\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Montreal (1982), Stone studied printmaking at NSCAD University before completing an MFA in painting and drawing at Concordia University. His early training in printmaking continues to inform his approach to image construction, visible in the layered, deliberate process through which his compositions are staged, photographed, and translated into painting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStone has exhibited across Canada and internationally. His work is held in public and private collections, including the Florida State University Museum and the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria. Stone continues to develop a practice that bridges historical painting techniques with contemporary narratives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ian Stone","offers":[{"title":"30 X 24 in.","offer_id":47176790049026,"sku":"37315","price":5150.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0919\/5944\/files\/37315.jpg?v=1767126383","url":"https:\/\/bau-xi.com\/en-us\/products\/in-the-smoke-the-body-remembers-itself-37315","provider":"Bau-Xi Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}