Rebecca Belmore: Fountain
Rebecca Belmore
2005
Exhibition catalogue from the Venice Biennale, 2005. Vancouver-based Anishnaabe artist Rebecca Belmore was Canada’s official representative at the 51st edition of the Venice Biennale, which opened in June 2005—the world’s oldest and most prestigious venue for the international display of contemporary art. The Kamloops Art Gallery and the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, which proposed Rebecca Belmore as the Biennale candidate, were the institutions selected in a nationwide competition to represent Canadian visual arts at the event. Fountain deals with elementals or essences: fire + water = blood. The time is both now, in the industrialized landscape of North America, and in another zone, a time of creation, myth and prophecy. The element of water is represented both as a body of water in the projection and literally as a wall of falling water. Water turns to blood. As befits our times, we don’t know whether this is a metaphor for creation and connectedness or an apocalyptic vision. Includes an interview by Scott Watson and essays by Jessica Bradley and Jolene Rickard.
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Identifier
L0220Call Number
N6549.B445A4 2005Extent
107 pages : illustrations ; softcover 26 cmLanguage
ISBN
0888656433Place of Publication
Vancouver and Kamloops, BCPublication Type
PrintArtist
Rebecca BelmoreCollection
grunt gallery LibraryCopyright Kamloops Art Gallery and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the University of British Columbia.