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Recent Acquisitions
2021, 05:21 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2150.00
HOMILY, CUR-SED I-IV (2021) investigates egregious political and communitarian wrongdoings through allegory and the imagery of fire.
Themes of women, gender diversity, sex work, sex workers, street prostitution. The film was shot at the height of the Davie Street red-light stroll in Vancouver, known at the time as the prostitution capitol of Canada. Hookers on Davie is the only documentation of Davie Street before a court injunction eliminated sex workers… ⊕
I don't remember much about her is based on Kika Nicolela's research about her Lebanese roots, memory loss and mother-daughter transmission. The video combines different techniques and materials, such as scanned old family photos, video, 3D scan and manipulated children’s drawings, in dialogue with an audio interview with… ⊕
"My artwork often uses text and images in innovative ways. For this project I created a wedding dress from the torn pages of 40 years of notebooks. I wore the dress with its ten-foot train and headdress, carrying a bouquet of flowers – all also made from notebook pages, as a performance in Christie Pits in Toronto on… ⊕
The film In Memory’s Theater begins with what seems to be a simple letter from the narrator to a grandparent. The film then grows into a philosophical meditation on the intersection of memory and existence. Delving into a small collection of color photographs left by this grandparent, the narrator attempts to draw a… ⊕