Helen Flanagan – No Strings Attached
© Helen Flanagan
As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, while I was away I received some interesting emails. One of them being from Helen Flanagan introducing me to her work and new series No Strings Attached. Flanagan describes her project to document an online world that revolves around sex.
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Shirin Neshat – Women Without Men
© Shirin Neshat in collaboration with Shoja Azari. Film still of "Women Without Men" 2009
When I first moved to Montreal, more than 10 years now, one of my first exhibits I remember going to was Shirin Neshat‘s retrospective exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in Montreal. It was Wednesday free night at the museum and it was packed but Neshat’s work was just so incredibly striking that sitting on the floor watching Rapture, I was momentarily lost, alone and captivated in her work. That exhibit, the memory of how I felt watching her work has stayed with me all this time and Neshat remains a very favorite artist of mine.
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Hiatus stunt is over
Well, let’s see….has it been that long? Uuh, yes!
This summer has panned out to be a busy one. No real excuses not to have been posting, I guess a break sort of happened. But things should start getting back on track now. While on this hiatus stunt I also did a lot less computer time, which I got time off from other blogs and emails. So I’m doing catch up and there’s so much interesting work to look at, which is great.
For the past couple of months I was teaching teenagers at F/Start, a photography camp in Montreal, where I enjoyed my time with the kids and my co-workers Kate Hutchinson and Roxanne Ross. I also got to take a vacation out West. We stayed a short time in Vancouver, then drove around the province down to the Okanagan for my cousin’s beautiful wedding and from there headed south to San Francisco. It was an awesome trip. San Francisco has some serious vibe going on, I wish we could have spent a couple more nights! But I did get the chance to catch the New Topographic exhibit at SFMOMA, which was really exciting. The exhibit was probably one of my highlights of the trip, along with hearing rattle snakes (for a first time) at a look out point in Washington and finding a town named Leggett in California. – If you’re interested, I’ve started posting a couple of images from the trip on my personal blog.
For my personal work, I was in Toronto at the beginning of July for the opening night of Proof 17 at Gallery 44, where I exhibited images from my series Lost Faces along with artists Roger Proulx, Christophe Jivraj, Meryl McMaster and Karen Zalamea. And will probably be returning to the city this fall to check out the Magenta Flash Forward Festival, which I was selected as an honorable mention for this years Flash Forward. Lost Faces also made it’s way to Arles France for the Voies Off Festival, which the entire series was projected as a curated group show titled For Intérieur by Michel Poivert.
Now back, settled and happy, Slightly Lucid will be returning to normal posting on Monday. Till then have a good weekend and please, if you have anything to share like new work, interesting articles, news, books or exhibits let me know, send me an email or even a post card if you’d like!
Searching for the wrong-eyed jesus
Representing a place may certainly be more than simply showing physical space. How does one goes about representing a specific area of the world has been the challenge of countless artists, including photographers and in the case that interests me today, film makers.
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Zhao Renhui – Facings
© Zhao Renhui - Man with half-swan bottles, L'Oceanografic, Spain
I found Zhao Renhui‘s work through the Magenta Flash Forward winners. This series Facings on hyper-reality, is an ongoing series and there’s no statement, so I’m speculating, but I believe that all the images were taken in a zoo of some sort in Spain.
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