Gisele Amantea Dearest

Date(s): Sep 12 to Oct 18 1998

Exhibition

Dearest

Gisele Amantea, Dear Andy, 1998. Photo : Richard-Max Tremblay

Using sources from the sixteenth century to the present, Dearest examines some of the ironies, fantaisies, delusions and romantic illusions that surround the representation, sometimes the self-representation, of women. The exhibition includes a number of large-scale works that the artist has created directly on the walls of the gallery during a residency at OBORO. In these, Amantea has used flock - a material commonly associated with bad taste, certain ethnic groups and social classes - to produce richly textured surfaces that underscore and draw out the pathologies and paradoxes of her source images and texts. In contrast to the scale of these works, the exhibition also features an installation in which three video loops are seen in continuous projection in a series of thirty-one water globes. Utilizing film clips and figurines, the installation plays upon the intimacy of the miniature in scrutinizing the unreal, dreamlike, yet often moving sentimentality that characterizes women in popular representation.

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Dearest

Gisele Amantea, Dear Andy, 1998. Photo : Richard-Max Tremblay

Originally from Calagary, Gisele Amantea lives in Montréal where she teaches at Concordia University. Earlier this year Dead Letters, an exhibition of text-based works on fabric, was presented at YYZ in Toronto. A ten-year survey of her work organized by the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, opens in January 1999, in Hérouville, France.

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