on matter reflecting time, reflecting space,
reflecting light
water memory
how flowers fall when they die
how flowers fall when they die ii
mixtapes
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Multimedia Installation, (sculpture, HD video), documented during my residency at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, MB.
Broken down salvaged concrete from the Hudson Bay Company building, Tyndall stone, found rocks, found glass and reclaimed clay previously used by several participants of the program. Single channel, 4K video, stereo sound, (6:43 min) .
Three dimensional work dimensions: 36”x 48” x 6”
This project was realized during my residency at the Summer Institute: Magic Creek program, taking place at PLUG IN Institute of Contemporary Art, in Winnipeg, MB. This program offered the unique opportunity to work in creative ways with salvaged materials, such as old concrete, bricks, and glass, from the former Hudson’s Bay Company building, which is situated across the street from the gallery and currently undergoing renovation by the Southern Chiefs Organization. Through this installation, I wished to address the history of Winnipeg and its surroundings, deeply rooted in colonialism and extraction. Reflecting the facade of the HBC building, this sculptural work overlays and juxtaposes manufactured, unsustainable, and now discarded materials with rocks and stones made in deep time, by the pre-historic waters, corals, planktons. A single channel video showing long exposure shots of water moving over rocks, filmed at a river close by, plays next to the sculpture, and includes this quote by by Lucy R. Lippard, from the novel I See / You Mean, which also inspired this piece::
“Often the strong visual movement observed in natural objects derives from the fact that their shapes are the traces of physical forces, which have created them through motion, expansion, contraction, or the processes of growth. The highly dynamic curve of an ocean wave is the result of the upward thrust of the water bent by the counter-pull of gravitation. The traces of waves on the wet sand of a beach owe their sweeping contours to the motion of the water; and in the expansive convexities of clouds and the rising and breaking lines of mountains, we directly perceive the nature of the mechanical forces that originated them. Burchartz says: 'Snails in building their shells offer an example of rhythmical construction. The shells are made from excretions of liquid chalk paste, which is shaped by rhythmical motions of the body and then crystallizes. Snails' shells are fixated expressive movements of the first order.' Thus nature is alive to our eyes partly because its shapes are fossils of the events that gave rise to them.”