Broken Land: Stories told and retold

Wednesday May 28, 2014
6:30pm
Residency Unlimited
360 Court Street #4 (big green doors)
Brooklyn, NY 11231

Please join us at RU for a double event featuring Montreal artist Lalie Douglas.

Douglas will present a preview exhibition of new work produced during her residency with RU. This evening will also serve to launch her recent publication.

Lalie Douglas: The Potential of Objects documents several of the artist’s ephemeral performative projects. These projects, which focused on the act of making (or unmaking) were often presented as one on one interactions with passers-by. Theses subtle works focused on art as experience and as such were fleeting but intense actions. This publication is a way of presenting the works to a wider audience and was a collaboration with the book designer and artist Karilee Fuglem.

The title “Broken Land” come from the Dutch place-name Breukelen meaning “broken land” from which Brooklyn gets its name. The subtitle; “Stories told and retold” refers to the construction of different versions and variants of similar sculptural scenes some quite large and others very small that are animated by stop motion narrative fragments.

Photo Documentation:

Influenced by her residency in Brooklyn, Douglas’ work combines sculpture, drawing, printmaking and stop-motion animation to create a series of narrative fragments depicting familiar but unsettling scenes. Through repetition and variations of scale Douglas causes the viewer to question the authenticity of each telling. These pieces will be part of a larger installation of the same name that will be presented at the Maison des arts in Laval, Quebec in December.

The evening will include a discussion between the artist and Ayelet Danielle Aldouby, Special Projects curator at RU.

Lalie Douglas’ 3 months residency is supported by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Her publication is made possible with funding from SODEC.