Roni Horn - Edith Brunette
dal 8/9/2011 al 7/10/2011
Segnalato da
8/9/2011
Roni Horn - Edith Brunette
Galerie de l'Uqam, Montreal
Some Thames. The body of work that Roni Horn has been meticulously building for more than 30 years encompasses drawing, photography, and sculpture. Exploring issues around the control of public spaces and information, Edith Brunette in Camararoman uses images from surveillance cameras to 'document' a series of performances in public spaces.
Roni Horn, Some Thames
The Galerie de l'UQAM present, as part of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, the work Some Thames by Roni Horn. Lucidity. Inward Views is the theme proposed by Anne-Marie Ninacs for the 12th presentation. The opening of Some Thames will take place Friday, September 9, at 6 pm, at the Galerie.
The exhibition
The body of work that Roni Horn has been meticulously building for more than 30 years encompasses drawing, photography, and sculpture. The artist calls into question the nature of perception and identity, of sameness and difference, through formal inventions of pairing and doubling. Her works involve a subtle comparison of pairs of very similar images, creating situations in which viewers become aware, by the very movement of their body through space, of the fundamentally fleeting and contingent nature of everything. The metaphor of water in Some Thames (2000), which presents 80 views of the surface of the River Thames, and thus the change in appearance of a single body from moment to moment.
The artist
Roni Horn is born in 1955 in New York, where she lives and works. Her works have been presented at and collected by important institutions throughout the world. In 2009–10, a major retrospective exhibition, was organized jointly and presented by the Tate Modern in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, then by the Lambert Collection in Avignon and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Horn is represented by Hauser & Wirth.
Free activities
Journées de la culture: September 30, October 1
Guided tour of the exhibition, 1 pm to 2 pm
Guided tour of the Public Art Collection of UQAM, 4 pm to 5 pm
Noontime Contemporary Art: Every Wednesday, 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
A guide will be on hand to discuss the works and answer visitors’ questions.
Open to all. No reservation required.
Guided tour: Available for groups at anytime.
Reservation required. 514-987-3000 # 1424, belisle.julie@uqam.ca
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Edith Brunette, Caméraroman
Exploring issues around the control of public spaces and information, Caméraroman uses images from surveillance cameras to "document" a series of performances in public spaces. In the gallery, ten monitors display images—or the absence of images—that the artist was able to access, resulting in a fragmented narrative sequence, punctuated by black screens, reflecting the interventions and the legal vacuum of video surveillance, as well as the arbitrary nature of access to information.
Image: Roni Horn, Some Thames (detail), 2000, digital colour print, 96,5 x 63,5 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth, London, Zurich, New York. © Roni Horn.
Opening: Friday September 9 at 6 pm
Galerie de l’UQAM
Université du Québec à Montréal
1400, Berri Street - Montreal (Quebec)
Tuesday to Saturday from noon to 6 p.m.
Free admission