Marlene MacCallum: The Architectural Uncanny

Opening Reception Thursday 10 January at 8 pm Remarks by Mark Bovey, Assistant Professor of Printmaking, NSCAD University Organized and circulated by the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, Newfoundland This exhibition consists of three series of photogravure prints, eight book works and one photographic body of work. Underlying all of the projects is MacCallum’s interest in the uncanny potential of domestic spaces. Her prints and photographs depict architectural subject matter as visual theatre where objects and interior/exterior spaces function as props and stages that generate a sense of contradiction and paradox. By using letterpress text with her photogravure images, MacCallum further explores how text and image communicate in parallel modes. Her books are developed as both structural objects and conceptual space; by subverting traditional conventions of bookbinding and book construction MacCallum further engages the work’s content by challenging the viewer’s physical and temporal experience of ‘reading’ a book. This exhibition is curated by Gail Tuttle and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.