Vera
Greenwood
Vera
Greenwood
Vera Greenwood : High Ground
Sylvie Fortin, Johanna Mizgala & Jeanne Randolph
Greenwood enlists memory and fiction, as well as humour and horror, to immerse viewers in the home and family environment in which she grew up. Acting as the curator of her own personal museum, she meticulously re-stages her childhood home and poignantly evokes her memories of growing up in a family whose fortune were greatly affected by her father's mental illness. Three essays probe, among much else, the artist's anti-authoritarian critique of the family, the church and the museum. Randolph is the author of Why Stoics Box.
Greenwood a recruté mémoire et fiction afin d'immerser le spectateur dans l'environnement familial au sein duquel elle a grandit. S'attribuant le rôle de conservatrice de son propre musée personnel, elle a méticuleusement recréé son enfance et évoqué les mémoires entourant sa famille, dont le bien-être dépendait fortement des troubles mentaux de son père. Trois essais cherchent à éclaircir le positionnement anti-autoritaire de l'artiste face à l'institution familiale ainsi qu'à toute autre institution, même celle du musée.
The Ottawa Art Gallery / Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2003) 97pp. 16 ill. coul. 22 x 14 cm 1-895108-56-x $25.00
Vera Greenwood: L'Hotel SofiCalle
Sandra Dyck
Canadian artist Vera Greenwood traveled to Paris in order to follow French artist Sophie Calle who, sixteen years earlier, had followed strangers and even had herself followed as part of an ongoing project. Greenwood's interest was in the concept of the gaze. Does anything or anyone have an objective reality? Calle knew when the detective was following her, so how did that affect her activities for the day? The publication presents an essay, artist's notes, photographs and artifacts of the expedition.
Carleton University Art Gallery (2002) 48 pp 21 ill. 8x6 in softcover 0770904599 $20.00 (Can./U.S.)
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