Exhibition Essays 2008

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It was a dark and stormy night…

by Jon Davies
From the exhibition And fastened to a dying animal by Jean-Paul Kelly (October 16 – November 15, 2008)
The first thing you should know is that all the ghosts that appear in Jean-Paul Kelly’s work look the same. They are all made of a bright white sheet with two black holes cut out for eyes, like what a poor kid would dress up in for Halloween…

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Life Stories

by Chen Tamir
From the exhibition Life Stories by Maayan Amir & Ruti Sela, Meiro Kozumi, Tova Mozard (September 10 – October 11, 2008)
We form our identities in reaction to each other (to received cultures, inherited histories, social economies). We demonstrate ourselves to each other, every day and every minute…

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Thoughts About The Pampas

by Florencio Noceti
From exhibition Afueras by Rosana Simonassi (June 26 – July 26, 2008)
Afueras, a visual art exhibition by Rosana Simonassi, consists of a series of black and white photographs taken in the Argentine and Uruguayan Pampas…

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Soliciting for the Purpose

by Thomas Waugh
From the exhibition 100 Stories About My Grandmother by Peter Kingstone (May 9 – June 14, 2008)
Peter Kingstone’s 100 Stories About My Grandmother is a unique video installation composed of interviews the artist has conducted on digital video over the last year, mostly in Canada, but also in the U.S. and Europe…

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The Rubbish Heap of History

by Daniel Baird
From the exhibition Artur Zmijewski (April 5 – May 3, 2008)
In the opening sequence of Polish artist Artur Zmijewski’s Singing Lesson 2, we see a teenage girl playing the piano, fingers pounding the keys with a blunt aggression…

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Farheen HaQ: The Landscape of Impermanence

by Deborah Root
From the exhibition Fray by Farheen HaQ (February 21 – March 22, 2008)
In Farheen HaQ’s new video, Homing, we are taken on a mysterious journey through the elemental experience of the natural world, an inner peregrination that involves a community coming together and separating in ritualized time and space…

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Dangling By Their Mouths

by Jon Davies
From the one-night screening Dangling By Their Mouths curated by Jon Davies (February 15, 2008)
The artists in Dangling By Their Mouths make mincemeat of the absurd turn that authoritative language has taken by mutating verbal speech into strange and ridiculous forms, evolving new, occasionally pathological languages…

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And Now for the Music and Dancing

by Jess Atwood Gibson
From the exhibition Wha Happened? by Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins (January 10 – February 9, 2008)
Wha Happened? is a question. Like the question in a comic book after something has been blown to smithereens, it implies a recent disaster…

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