selected works from 1985-2009
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Sometimes I like a happy ending; sometimes I like a sad ending (2009) random objects random thoughts (2009) Signs of Life: an intimate portrait of someone I don't know (2008) Le stade du Miroir (2003) you are on my mind (2003) The Trouble with Translation (2003) Family Album (2002) between two points (2001) Doing Time (2000) Staging Memory (2000) I should have, I could have, I would have... ...if only (1998) I am ... (1998) The Veiled Room (1998) Projections for the Unseeing (1997) A Portable Viewing Station for Anxious Travelers (1994) In Memoriam Forgetting and Remembering Fragments of History (1993) Measure of the Man (1992) Fragments for a Story (1991) Search for Definition (1991) Isn't your/my mother beautiful? (1990) Neon for j.e. atkinson (1990) My lips are sealed (1989) Contradictions and Possibilities (1988) In the room (1987) Hide and Seek (1985) Back to Back (1985) |
Projections for the Unseeing, 1997
Materials: Steel, glass, 16mm film loop, motors Dimensions: 10 in. diameter; x 6 ft. Exhibitions: The Red Head Gallery, Toronto galerie l'expression, St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. Through the cinematic projection of the moving images and the juxtaposition of the mechanical eyes or 'visual aids', the installation plays with the psychological idea of projection which shape our memory and subjectivity through language and vision.. The viewer is placed in different sites for seeing and being seen; from the invisible gaze of the cinematographer to the mediated gaze of the mechanical eyes to the blind gaze of the children on the film loop. Projections for the unseeing proposed the instability of identity and subjectivity and the fragility of memory. Text which appears on the glasses: "I could never co-ordinate my arms with my breathing so I would take a deep breath and swim the length of the pool non-stop this left me breathless" "Dans la chamber de ma grandmère se trouve ma poupée Barbara Ann Scott qui a perdu sa tête. Je ne pouvais point entrer dans cette pièce" |