centre d'artistes.artist run centre
18/01/08 - 17/02/08
Opening: fri 18/01/08 at 7pm at articule
Artist's presentation: sat 19/01/08 at 5pm at GIV, 4001 Berri, #105,
A co-presentation by GIV (Groupe Intervention Vidéo) and articule
In her video, performance and installation work, Deirdre Logue focuses on the potential of an authentic self by exploring notions of retrospection and autobiography, the passage of time, and the body as a material and corporeal entity. Interested in both queer and feminist theory, early video and performance art, psychoanalysis and psychosomatic illness, the artist examines how we, and in particular queer women, organize our images and identities for mass consumption, and how this reflects or distracts from our knowledge of the individual.
For her exhibition at articule, the artist will present two of her most recent projects, Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes is a selection of short video pieces that record , accomplishments without impact è. As a series of self-portraits, they reflect on aging, breaking down, reparation, and describe our need for intimacy and our fears of exposure. They are always, when we really wish they were just sometimes. Rough Count is an ongoing work dedicated to the infinite and the endless, and shows a simple act of counting a bag of confetti - piece by piece. At the centre of this work is the anticipation and the accumulation of anxiety that results from the counting. In this emotional pile up, time spent is grieved with each lost number and the counting becomes a sight for the analysis of self-doubt where even before the point of completion, one starts to question the truth of ones action.