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Image credit: Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks (2025)
Throughout the 20th century, the Wereldmuseum (former Tropenmuseum)—Amsterdam’s most prominent museum of ethnography—has accumulated more than 150,000 objects from colonized regions worldwide. Today, these objects are obsessively polished, dusted, and neatly ordered, revealing an underlying anxiety connected… ⊕
2024, 23:59 minutes, colour
tapecode 2196.00
Miles away, I watch the slow erasing of my home, Lebanon. Scattered between two places, I no longer am. Somewhere, but not here. traces filmmaker Karel’s journey as she moves to Toronto from her homeland, Lebanon. Caught between two time zones, she teeters on the edge of despair, when troubling news from Lebanon flashes… ⊕
PORN (Glow Video Installation Series) - 2005Multi-channel video installation. 15 minutes looped, silentCRT televisions, dvd player, RF modulator, RCA cable, coaxial cables & splitters(Installation dimensions & configurations vary upon available tv's and size of exhibition space).Part of the Glow Video Series in which I… ⊕
This work utilizes text, which I had been playing with since 1996. The text is a stream of consciousness type list of things that “I really should” do, such as “pay back my student loan,” “drink more water,” “take more chances,” “clean out the litter box,” etc…… ⊕
“Strung between the twin poles of pathos and irony, 108 Leyton Ave is Kelly Mark’s most personally revealing work to date. It is built from common expressions relating to 'everything' and 'nothing' and was developed over a period while Mark was living in the social isolation of a quasi-suburban limbo on… ⊕