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Adad Hannah
Cuba Still (Remake) January 16 - March 14, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 7 - 9 pm Born in New York in 1971, Adad Hannah lives and works in Montréal. Cuba Still (Remake) can be seen as a continuation of his series of video-recorded tableaux vivants, begun in the early 2000s. The artist calls these videos "Stills". Starting with a publicity photo for a banal and forgotten film purchased in Havana in 2003, Hannah re-stages the scene, filming individual sequences of each of the six characters from the original photo. The resulting six videos are then simultaneously projected so as to fabricate a single cinematic scene, a tableau vivant, from the separate and apparently motionless video images. An ingenious method of projection - six crafted wooden stands with 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 contrasting merits of the fixed and the moving image, and the particular nature of photography and film. (Josée Bélisle, Curator of the MACM Collection) The MOMENTUM Series has been made possible with the financial support of the Department of Canadian Heritage through its Museums Assistance Program. 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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Maria Fernanda Cardoso Maria Fernanda Cardoso is a Sydney-based multi-media artist who was born in Colombia. 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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Simon Frank Simon Frank is a Hamilton-based earth artist whose work incorporates elements of action and performance. The natural world has been Frank's frame of aesthetic reference for the past ten years. The idea of the scenic view, of "landscape" as such, and the use-value it creates are all central points of enquiry in his work. Using a log marking hammer - designed to brand logs destined for the lumber mill with a proprietary symbol - Frank creates a ghost-like dream forest in the niche project space at Rodman Hall. |
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