Divergences: Rebecca Belmore, Shelley Niro
Shelley Niro, Rebecca Belmore
2004
Divergences: Rebecca Belmore, Shelley Niro is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan from March 29 to June 2, 2003. Rebecca Belmore and Shelley Niro offer complex interpretations of physical, cultural, and personal spaces. They uncover the differences in how our histories, politics, and social structures are expressed and understood. The utopian notion of common place is disrupted by drawing action to how nature (both human and physical) is constructed. Although inherently critical, their investigations are generous, informed, and rigourous. In Lee-Ann Martin's essay, she explores how the use of media in the artists' work informs deeper meaning. The use of natural materials like clay, the powerful presence of the large scale, the time-bound insistence of film and performance—are all ways to transcend the limits of traditional media so that deeper meaning is revealed. These are not landscapes respresented as romantic, distant, and sublime. Rather, in the work of Belmore and Niro, the Land is expressed as physical, cultural, and personal.
Book's Foreward
Book's Foreward
Identifier
L0289Call Number
N6549.B456 A4 2004Extent
32 pages : illustrations ; softcover 26 cmLanguage
ISBN
9781896470474Place of Publication
Regina, SaskatchewanPublication Type
PrintCurator
Lee-Ann MartinPublisher
MacKenzie Art GalleryCollection
grunt gallery LibraryCopyright 2004 the contributors and the MacKenzie Art Gallery.