Gone Missing, 2010
Materials: Neon
Dimensions: dimensions variable: a short story about a mysterious traumatic event that alludes to the fragility of life and memory
Exhibition: Loop Gallery, Toronto
Jst wrds, Cambridge Galleries, 2013
Photo credit: Thomas Blanchard
Gone Missing consists of a series of sentence fragments produced in neon, and a DVD with the flashing images of European museums and exhibitions suggest narratives of memory, loss and longing. The words produced in neon suggest clues to an unrevealed mystery and personal identity. The impressionistic wordless images of travel allude to the 19th C 'art tour undertaken by wealthy youth and express the ephemeral and fragmented nature of memory. The use of neon to represent conversational language reflects [the artist's] interest in language and subjectivity. Together with the rapidly flashing images of travel, these two elements of the installation investigate the construction of memory and place. There is an inherent tension between the iconic postcard travel images, the familiarity of the neon sign as the language of advertising and the private thoughts suggested in Gone Missing.
Materials: Neon
Dimensions: dimensions variable: a short story about a mysterious traumatic event that alludes to the fragility of life and memory
Exhibition: Loop Gallery, Toronto
Jst wrds, Cambridge Galleries, 2013
Photo credit: Thomas Blanchard
Gone Missing consists of a series of sentence fragments produced in neon, and a DVD with the flashing images of European museums and exhibitions suggest narratives of memory, loss and longing. The words produced in neon suggest clues to an unrevealed mystery and personal identity. The impressionistic wordless images of travel allude to the 19th C 'art tour undertaken by wealthy youth and express the ephemeral and fragmented nature of memory. The use of neon to represent conversational language reflects [the artist's] interest in language and subjectivity. Together with the rapidly flashing images of travel, these two elements of the installation investigate the construction of memory and place. There is an inherent tension between the iconic postcard travel images, the familiarity of the neon sign as the language of advertising and the private thoughts suggested in Gone Missing.
Gone Missing: Travelogue & Painting, 2010
Materials: DVD (Travelogue of Paris, Venice, Berlin, London), found painting of Basilica della Salute*
Dimensions: 19 in. monitor, oil painting 21.5"x19"
Runtime: 24:40
* The image in the painting is the iconic Basilica della Salute
In 1630 Venice experienced an unusually devastating outbreak of the plague. As a votive offering for the city's deliverance from the pestilence, the Republic of Venice vowed to build and dedicate a church to Our Lady of Health (or of Deliverance, Italian: Salute). The church was designed in the then fashionable Palladian style by Baldassare Longhena, a pupil of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio, and construction began in 1631. Most of the objects of art housed in the church bear references to the Black Death.
Materials: DVD (Travelogue of Paris, Venice, Berlin, London), found painting of Basilica della Salute*
Dimensions: 19 in. monitor, oil painting 21.5"x19"
Runtime: 24:40
* The image in the painting is the iconic Basilica della Salute
In 1630 Venice experienced an unusually devastating outbreak of the plague. As a votive offering for the city's deliverance from the pestilence, the Republic of Venice vowed to build and dedicate a church to Our Lady of Health (or of Deliverance, Italian: Salute). The church was designed in the then fashionable Palladian style by Baldassare Longhena, a pupil of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio, and construction began in 1631. Most of the objects of art housed in the church bear references to the Black Death.
Gone Missing: Travelogue & Painting
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