Paulette Phillips
dal 6/5/2004 al 20/6/2004
Segnalato da
6/5/2004
Paulette Phillips
Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London
The Secret Life of Criminals. Writer, performer and filmmaker, Canadian artist Paulette Phillips will present The Secret Life of Criminals, a series of film and video installations informed by the unsolved murder of a middle-aged woman. The installations are short gestural narratives based on the artist's observations of human behaviour.
The Secret Life of Criminals
Writer, performer and filmmaker, Canadian artist Paulette Phillips will present The Secret Life of Criminals, a series of film and video installations informed by the unsolved murder of a middle-aged woman. The installations are short gestural narratives based on the artist's observations of human behaviour. These mini dramas are twisted metaphors inspired by occurrences, interactions or acts of folly which play out daily on any bus, street corner, car, restaurant, park, ravines ... These witnessed events signal distress, melt down, an illness as metaphor to larger issues confounding our existence. The artist is interested in how people undo themselves and seemingly participate in their own misfortune. She sees this behavioural paradox – of short-circuiting one's best interests – as the root of her continuing interest and engagement with narrative form.
A catalogue will accompany the exhibition with texts by Janna Graham and Maria Walsh.
The award-winning artist lives in Toronto, Canada where she is an associate professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. She recently completed a residency at the Cité des Arts in Paris and has just opened two solo exhibitions at the Oakville Galleries and Cambridge Galleries, Ontario. Her work is represented in private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery, Ottawa.
For this exhibition the artist is supported by the Canadian High Commission London, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council and the Canadian Council for the Arts.
Private View: 7 May 2004 6 - 9 pm
Image: The Floating House 2002
video projection with sound
Next: Nowhere Else but Here 25 June to 1 August 2004
Artists include Rieko Akatsuka Clare Bryan Paul Cunningham Katie Deith Tomoko Emori Louisa Fairclough Ian Kiaer Sophie Lascelles Laure Prouvost Kate Scrivener Corin Sworn Finlay Taylor Laura White
Mr & Mrs Ivan Morison are confused ... 10 September to 31 October 2004
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