In Mementos (2019), every object in a person’s bedroom is compiled into a ‘short-term sculpture’ to create a condensed image of their belongings, void of the spatial context that the objects live in. The arrangement of the things provides an intimate window into someone’s possessions through an abstracted version of their personal space. The participants of Mementos range in age… Read more →
Film is fogged when light impacts the negative in an unexpected way. Fogged! captures that effect, the tone and language of super 8 and 16mm experimental film to explore the idea of place through the lens of women. It explores how new condo developments affect this neighbourhood, transforming the environmental, social, and economic aspects of working class life. The program… Read more →
Works in Program:Mountain Castle Mountain Flower, Annapurna KumarPine Processionary, Anna FirthNew Millennium Workout Routine, YalooIn This House, Weronika StepienM.A.S.H, FlavourcelI Hear Lines, Karolina Glusiec Curator’s Statement:Mount Pleasant has a history of urban developments from the 1990s onward. There is an ongoing demand for the resources required to accommodate these redevelopments, which aim to increase densification of the neighbourhood. This contributes… Read more →
Cracks and Vines is a video memorial to houses erased from the Mount Pleasant landscape. Drawing from Milton’s fifteen year history as a Mount Pleasant resident, the work focusses on the recreation of wallpaper that once patterned the walls of rental suites she was forced to leave due to demolition. Exploring a tension between stillness and motion, permanence and impermanence,… Read more →
