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Getting Back To Dust
Jeanie Riddle is a practicing artist with a fixation about economy and exhausting potential in simple forms. She currently resides in Montreal with her daughter and is Director and Curator of Parisian Laundry.
"My work in installation recognizes the potential of corners as forgotten space as well as space where accumulation can occur, broken lines that speak to empty space. These architectural details call to mind potential. Their voids filled with domestic identifiers. Accessed and unpacked as autobiographical definitions of locating the human self in philosophical aesthetics and the being of a made up world of instinctual and tender architecture. I align my practice to a feminist practice that confronts and breakdowns the domestic much like Karla Black or Lily Vander Stokker where aesthetic interventions punctuate space and speak to the potential of subtle spatial gestures in the same way my work does. The emphasis is on the cumulative construction of an ongoing practice, thus a lived environment.
"In effect, the works become sculptural reproductions of themselves when placed in a real space. The room, the walls, its openings and closures and their slow shifts are reflected in the work and vice versa. The hanging of paintings, read non-hang, and the installation of sculpture objects as arrangements evoke the reciprocal nature of human creation. The finality of the work as object for display is secondary to the overall impetus of these paintings and objects, which is the continual process of completion. My work is minimalist but the layers of interaction deep. This depth is what I wish to explore."
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca