In this exhibition at Gairloch Gallery of Oakville Galleries, in 2003, I wanted to foreground the building, built as a summer home. with its views of Lake Ontario. The artworks have since been presented in other contexts, but they were conceived with this place in mind.
many things were left unsaid
transparent vinyl lettering on white walls
The unspoken thoughts of characters in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse are produced in transparent vinyl and placed on white walls where the constantly shifting daylight makes them difficult to read, at times invisible. The installation was conceived for the lakeside Gairloch Gallery, a setting like the summer home in the novel. When adapted for the Musée du Québec, French translations by Marguerite de Youcenar were interspersed with the original English text.
many things were left unsaid, Gairloch Gallery of Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada (2003)
Avancer dans le brouillard, Musée National des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada (2004)
intrus/intruders (2008) Musée National des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada
collection: Musée National des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada, French and English version
Whatever they said had also this quality
fans, timers, nylon thread, acetate discs: 112 x 47 x 83 in / 285 x 120 x 210 cm
Discs hand-cut from acetate are threaded between a ceiling support and domestic fans placed on the floor at the scale of a dining room table. The fans turn on and off to mimic the rushes and lulls of a conversation, lifting the discs along the threads where they flicker with reflected light in the day-lit room. Originally shown in the former dining room at Gairloch Gallery, Oakville, Ontario, as part of many things were left unsaid.
many things were left unsaid, Gairloch Gallery of Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON, Canada (2003)
Entre ciel et terre: La biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine, Trois-Rivières, Qc (2004)
Soft Passages, Gairloch Gallery of Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON, Canada (2005)
States of Materiality/ Etats de la matière, Stewart Hall Gallery, Pointe-Claire, QC, Canada (2008)
Conversations with Light and Air, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC, Canada (2010)
Untitled (Invisible thread)
2003-2004
nylon thread, size varies
Fine nylon ( “invisible”) thread is looped in and out of itself into an apparent tangle and suspended in a daylit room. The room at first appears to be empty, the mass of lines being only perceptible from certain vantage points.
many things were left unsaid, Gairloch Gallery of Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada (2003)
Avancer dans le brouillard, Musée National des beaux-arts du Quebec, QC (2004
collection: Musée National des beaux-arts du Quebec, QC, 2005
domestic
inkjet print on polyester, steel frame (48 X 56 in / 122 x 142) cm with fan
A fabric-printed photograph of clouds seen from a plane is stretched over a steel frame supported a few inches above the floor. A fan nearby causes a vertiginous rippling of the image.
many things were left unsaid, Gairloch Gallery of Oakville Galleries, ON, Canada (2003);
curator: Kim Simon
Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada (2006)
