Future Exhibitions
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Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Fashion and Mimesis Maria Fernanda Cardoso is a Sydney-based multi-media artist who was born in Columbia. Her best known works involve video and photo-sculptural installations such as Flea Circus that deal with the lower orders of creatures, namely, insects. In all of Cardoso's work mimesis plays a vitally important role as a lens through which inter-species relations may be examined. In this exhibit Cardoso uses emu feathers to construct unique women's fashions and home accessories, while accompanying pieces reference stick-insect mimesis. Cardoso is notable for the animal materials with which she works, including cow bones, butterfly wings, and starfish. |
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Adad Hannah: Cuba Still (Remake)
January 16 - March 14, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 7 - 9 pm Organized by the Musee d'art contemporain as part of the Momentum series Born in New York in 1971, Adad Hannah lives and works in Montréal. Cuba Still (Remake) is a continuation of his "Stills" series of tableaux vivants, which he commenced in about 2000. Starting with a publicity still for a banal forgotten film which he purchased in Havana in 2003, Hannah restored to the screen, for the purposes of video capture, the six characters from the original image. The resulting six videos were then screened simultaneously side by side so as to remake, in a single cinematic image, the fabricated sequence of the apparently motionless images of the tableaux vivants. An ingenious projecting mechanism - six wooden lecterns and a system of cutout masks - plus the original photograph and the images of the six characters complete this installation, which crystallizes the notions of the photographic moment and of duration, the respective merits of the fixed and the moving image, and the particular nature of photography and film. Image: Adad Hannah, Cuba Still (Remake), 2005, installation view. 6 DVD videos, 6 supports for video projector, 6 video projectors, 6 frames, Edition of 3; 13 photographs mounted under Plexiglas, Edition of 5. Collection Museé d'art contemporain de Montréal. Photo: Courtesy of Pierre-François Ouellete Art Contemporain. |
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