Take a picture, it lasts longer.
Take a picture, it lasts longer. | Anna Edell & Adam Wilcox
2011. Painting / Sound; Installation
A set of two installations considering the personal phenomenon of “instant nostalgia” and the conventions of memory through the mediums of paint and sound. The combination of the works repositions the once-purposeless artifacts of inconsequential moments as powerful reminders of personal alienation and time passed.
What do you create when you take a snapshot; what do you want to remember?
@ POP Quarters eaxh day of festival.
VERNISSAGE : Wednesday, September 21. 16h to 19h30.
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The walls are covered with paintings, various sized images of familiar scenes expressed with saturated colour and contrast. Intangible sound fills the room, layers of sound that are both distant and familiar. The visitor’s mind picks out those audible triggers, that coupled with the strong visual images, piece together a sense of nostalgia that is all at once at once inviting yet disorienting. A synesthetic effect is produced by varying proportions of colour palette and sonic textures.
Significant events that are experienced by the body and all five of it’s senses commonly become replaced by memories conjured from watching yourself on a screen. Mechanical documentation confuses the process of recollection, resulting in false memories; a deviance; an account of the past. A collaborative installation of images and sounds which were sourced from common documentation methods. Obsolete mediums such as VHS and 35mm, are found to manipulate the senses and create a feeling of nostalgia that examines the confluence of artificiality and authenticity.
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Anna Edell is a recent graduate of Concordia University with a combined degree in Art History and Studio Arts. She has participated in various group shows, and continues to initiate curatorial studies within her community. In 2010, her paintings were featured in the Void literary magazine. Anna continues to live and work in Montreal. Anna’s work looks to evoke an uncanny, unsettling view of the world that both seduces the human senses while leaving the mind weary of the ambiguity of its expression.
Adam Wilcox is an electronic music producer with a background in film. He Graduated from Media Arts at John Abbott College, where he directed several short films, reflecting a strong focus on sound design. His work involves formal recreation and engages ideas of associative meaning. Without any formal training, his is an intuitive and memory-based approach, central to which is a reliance on images and the potential of modern technology.