They look like typical snapshots, silly and carefree. Two friends mug for the camera. They smile. So why have these Polaroids been enlarged and mounted with photo corners as if in a room-sized family album? Why are the eyes masked off with tape, and what is the meaning of those heartfelt inscriptions scrawled right across the emulsion?

They look like typical snapshots, silly and carefree. Two friends mug for the camera. They smile. So why have these Polaroids been enlarged and mounted with photo corners as if in a room-sized family album? Why are the eyes masked off with tape, and what is the meaning of those heartfelt inscriptions scrawled right across the emulsion?

This photograph is from a series entitled Marguerite, which explores the imagined life of Marguerite Bourgeouys, a 17th-century teacher and nun who founded the Sisters of Notre-Dame. In a sense, Knight’s photographs compose a portrait of Marguerite, but one in which no face or figure appears.

Kelly Mark. Mended Stool 1995. Four-legged maple stool, pronged mending plates; 76.2 x 30.4 x 30.4 cm. MSVU Collection.

Kelly Mark 144 White Jars 1993
Mason jars filled with white materials
Collection, Mount Saint Vincent University
Purchase, 1995

David Askevold
Don’t Eat Crow 1994
colour video with 2-channel audio
28:30 minutes
Gift, anonymous, 1995
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1995.5