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)


Search for Definition, 1991 

Materials: Polaroid photos, Fresnel lenses, clothes, ikea frames
Dimensions: Variable size
Exhibition:
Brock University Gallery, St. Catherines, Ontario

I asked my colleagues and students to pose with their eyes closed in their work environment and to give me a list of ten significant dates in their life but without disclosing what the dates represented. I then matched various items of clothing to their photos. How do we see ourselves? How do others see us? There is selective perception from both perspectives and a public and private presentation of the self.

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