Critical Writing Index

Sarah Gregg Millman: A fun time is a great time

by Erinn Beth Langille

Mercer Union, July 3, 2009

Toronto: Mercer Union, 2009

This exhibition catalogue accompanied the July 3 to August 15 programme at the Mercer Union centre for contemporary art, featuring the work of video artist Sarah Gregg Millman. Millman’s work addresses the decay of beauty and notions of the female muse or icon, while rejecting the tenets of second wave feminism. Influenced by French filmmaker Agnes Varda, Millman’s work contrasts sunny scenes populated by smiling women with “an indeterminate malaise articulated through boredom and anxiety.”

ITEM 2009.053 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Truth Stories 2 – Sarah Gregg Millman

Blue – Sarah Gregg Millman

Pregnant on the Couch – Sarah Gregg Millman

Interview – Sarah Gregg Millman

All We Are Saying Is, White Girls For Kanye, The Revolution, Or Both – Sarah Gregg Millman

Cleo from 5 to 7 – Agnes Varda

Vagabond – Agnes Varda

Le Bonheur – Agnes Varda

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère – Édouard Manet

The Boater at the Argenteuil – Édouard Manet