YVONNE SINGER
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selected works from 1985-2009

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)


random objects : random thoughts, 2009 

Medium: wood, resin, bronze, needlepoint, leather, fabric, plaster
Dimensions
: variable size
Exhibition: akau inc., Toronto. 

Thoughts, images, words, objects; random objects, random thoughts are the fragments that create a disconnected narrative of associations, relationships, gestures ... like a poem. It references art history, past and present with a nod to Brancusi's Endless Column and the leap of faith required to make art. It is about traditional and contemporary making processes such as the digitally produced resin pieces, the plaster mould required to make bronze, the handmade needlepoint and the handmade doll. These processes are a metaphor for change, transitions, dislocations, girlhood, personal history and memory.

random objects, random thoughts is a small gesture made to extract understanding from an assemblage of seemingly disparate objects and images.

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