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TITLE : I can't find my watch, yet it hasn't flown away
Installation with automation
DATE : 2006
MATERIAL : 6 salad spiners, timers, motion sensors, print photos, lights, hardware.
DIMENSIONS : each : about 36 cm X 36 cm X 25 cm
PHOTO & VIDEO : Diane Landry
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- Musée d'art de Joliette (Quebec).
- First Look II, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY.
- Bus 117, Melbourne, Australia.
- Thomas Welton Art Gallery, Stanford, CA.
- Centre VU, Quebec city.
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This project has a series of salad spinners lined up against a wall and presented on transparent shelving. They look identical, are white, and have the quality of an anonymous plastic object that is mass-produced for utilitarian consumption. Each salad spinner has its own lighting and the space is lit only by these curious containers. |
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On moving closer to them, we notice that each salad spinner has its own moving parts and its own electronic clockwork mechanism. A time-switch controls an electric motor that automatically activates the object. The salad spinners move circularly at an intermittent tempo and the delicate sound they produce is inherent to the make-up of the appliances. As we get ever closer to the work, we discover a small window made directly in each of the plastic containers. Through this opening, we see a short film loop composed of a series of photos that create a movie animation. Each salad spinner has its own “film,” its own history, and all of the film loops may be read as a dynamic narrative. To create this cinematographic effect, I used a 19th-century process for animating images, called “zoetrope.” |
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| The intimate nature of the project is reinforced by the choice of images that are enclosed in each salad spinner. These are portraits of myself doing simple things. Such actions, which appear in a repeating loop, evoke the repetitive routine of our daily lives. This eternal wheel of the same things being done in the same way seems all the more unavoidable because of the presence of a home appliance, which is linked to the image of obsessive actions. We see the contradiction of wanting to escape the alienation of routine while also wishing to enjoy the comfort of a stable life. This project is a continuation of my artistic research on transforming the utilitarian purpose of banal and everyday objects into unexpected events |
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