Technical Problem, digital image 3
Aileen Bahmanipour
September 8 – October 14, 2017
Creative Access Description
A colour landscape image of four mixed-media drawings mounted on a white wall in a gallery space with track lighting illuminating the works. The first two drawings on the left resemble a diptych, mounted on the wall close to each other in similar dimensions, one in landscape orientation and the other in portrait. The panels feature a black-and-white collage drawing depicting a figure suspended mid-air against a honeycomb background and a collage drawing of colourful abstract geometric forms, with line, grid and dot patterns, and ripped-up portions of photographs. In the centre of the wall is a large drawing depicting a dead tree trunk, filled with bees in its cross-section, standing against a white rectangular background with a honey-orange streak swirling around the tree. In the tea-stained-coloured margins are flying insects with grain-like shapes floating in the air. The drawing at the end of the row portrays a headless body with the cross-section of a human neck spurting blood cells out into the picture frame from severed carotid arteries. The figure holds up a transparent sheet between its thumb and index finger. A large tubular body resembling a snake with dark green scales wraps around the figure, entangling itself around the figure’s arms and shoulders.Description
Installation shot of the works Technical problems, Field trip, and Wonderland in Technical Problem.Identifier
2017.0908 TEC I003Extent
1 digital imageArtist
Aileen BahmanipourPhotographer
Dennis HaRelated program
Technical Problem (Related)In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca