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| Video installation
3 monitors on plinths, 3 video loops playing simultaneously with sound
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Flipped uses photography
and simple flipbook animation techniques to investigate questions of identity
in relation to the body, sexuality, and technology. Presented in the form
of a three-video installation, it involves a series of photographs of the
artist put ‘into action’ through the animation of flipbooks.
Self-portraits taken with a timed shutter-release camera show the artist
performing a combination of playful gestures, attitudes and movements embodying
a variety of personas through the use of costumes and accessories. The
character is at times seductive, angry and playful, displaying herself:
undressed, dressed in shorts with purse in hand, or hoola-hooping dressed
in motorcycle gear. The images have been taken in such a way as to divide
the body into two sections – the head/upper torso and everything
below the neck – in order to create a distinct division between mind
and body, or the psyche and the somatic. The video shows the artists hands
flipping the pages of the book, situating the artist as both the public
and the subject. She is both looking out from the photographs and down
at the books from the point-of-view of the camera lens, leaving the viewer
in the position of a voyeur looking into a private self-reflection. |
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Funding: Conseil des arts et
des lettres du Québec |
