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¤ Suzanne Swannie
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An Intimate Distance

Glynis Humphrey, Gorge (detail)
Glynis Humphrey, Gorge (detail)

Glynis Humphrey, Gorge (detail) 1996
Five video monitors, five VHS videotapes, playback equipment, tulle
Installed dimensions vary
photo: Steve Farmer
3 Jun 2015 – 16 Aug 2015

An Intimate Distance presents three multi-component works: Andrea Ward’s Hairstories, Glynis Humphrey’s Gorge and Suzanne Swannie’s Considering Two Small Forms, for Maja and Marta. Apart from illuminating body image issues and other details of women’s lives, these works hold in common a distinctive “aniconism”— the avoidance of figurative depictions of women’s bodies. They exemplify a critical tendency in Second-Wave feminist art-making, the commitment to engage with women’s subjectivity while at the same time refusing to depict women’s bodies as objects of “the gaze”. The constraints entailed by this aesthetics of refusal have prompted some of the most compelling and imaginative works of art produced in Nova Scotia in the last thirty years.

Read the exhibition catalogue essay here

An Intimate DistancePurchase the catalogue, An Intimate Distance

OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, 6 June, 2 to 4pm. Artist Glynis Humphrey will be present. Opens jointly with Bridget Moser: Is this thing on?

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Exhibition Images
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Andrea Ward, HairstoriesAndrea Ward, HairstoriesGlynis Humphrey, Gorge (detail)Installation View, An Intimate DistanceInstallation view, An Intimate Distance (Photo: Steve Farmer)
Suzanne Swannie, Considering Two Small Form, for Maja and MartaSuzanne Swannie, Considering Two Small Form, for Maja and Marta (detail)     


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