WORK WORK WORK
2009

Through photography and sculpture, WORK WORK WORK focuses on the body as a tool for production via repetitive and restrictive processes.
 
Self-Portrait with Plaster I - IV
c-prints, 45" x 30"

The photographs present the artist in a series of plaster-bound positions, making evident the production of a pose, the transformation of the working body into object, and the sculptural possibilities of performance-based imagery.
 

WORK WORK WORK exhibition installation, Galerie Simon Blais, Montréal, 2009
 
   
Studies in Semblance
plaster, variable dimensions

Studies in Semblance is a sculptural succession of arm casts that references Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies. While the sculptures reveal the repetitive nature of the casting process and emphasize the arms as tools for production, they simultaneously rendered the working body useless in the process.
   
   
 
Traces
c-print, 21" x 14"

A document of what remained after the Self-Portrait with Plaster production, Traces presents an accumulation of footprints on the studio floor. The marks hint towards the unconstrained material and the maneuvering involved, resulting in a residual archive of the process.
 


Exhibitions:

2009  WORK WORK WORK, Galerie Simon Blais, Montréal, Canada
 
 
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