It's not enough to hire a good cinematographer to produce attractive frames (for the record, The Water Diviner is lensed by Peter Jackson's go - to DP Andrew Lesnie, who sadly passed away last night), you have to consider what every single
object in every single frame signifies.
For this exhibition she has selected some of her most significant landscape drawings and collections of found natural
objects and has created a body of new work culminating
in a major, one hour - long, two - screen 35 mm Cinemascope film, Antigone, which uses multiple exposures to combine places, people and seasons into a
single cinematographic
frame.
«Memory ware» refers to a folk practice
in Canada, where an assortment of
objects — jugs, boxes, vases, picture
frames, ashtrays and other keepsakes — are decoupaged
in memorabilia, tchotchkes and trinkets of sentimental and decorative value including the buttons,
single earrings, broken jewelry, badges and pins, brooches, coins, shells, beads, pearls, tiled made from broken tea cups and other charms.
Framed as a
single work, the simplicity of the collected
objects reference both the building's industrial past and the artist's high - minded regard for the smallest amount of intervention
in the materials used
in his work.