Matter/Flesh/Spirit/Ground: An overview of the video work of Wendy Geller

Opening 7 August 8:00 pm

Curator Jim McSwain writes that the late Wendy Geller's video work “encompasses a voice and structure that strips away the habits and politeness that shield us from the forces of nature, and the hierarchies of power that suffuse western society. In her humorous satire, her feminist sensibility revels in critiquing Freudian psychoanalysis as well as the role(s) of actresses within the Hollywood star system. However, Geller's voice finds its most multilayered synthesis in her series Stories for the Garden. In these pieces, her anxiety concerning the body is articulated through the dread and ecstasy of nature's consuming cycle of birth and death, as she constructs an allegorical journey that wins through to a fragile wisdom. These themes, sometimes raw, at times lyrical, connect the viewer to an artist whose creative energy sought to illuminate the human condition."

This exhibition is organized by the Centre for Art Tapes in collaboration with Dalhousie Art Gallery; the catalogue includes an essay by Dr. Jayne Wark.