Karen Elaine Spencer
LETTERS HOME / LETTRES À MA MÈRE
karen elaine spencer holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from UQAM and a Bachelor’s degree from the Halifax Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her works have been presented in Canada, the United States and Europe, especially during Blogueurs en captivité, a collaboration between Dare-Dare and Folie/Culture (2014), in the Art in Odd Places Festival in New York (2013) and the Performance and Intervention Art Festival (2011). More recently, her work was shown at the Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul (2015). She is represented by ELLEPHANT, a new contemporary art gallery in Montréal. TO SEE — From October 28 to Nobember 22 2015, the ELLEPHANT Gallery presents other excerpts of the letters home / lettres à ma mère series. The gallery is located at 1201 St. Dominique Street. The opening will take place on November 7 from noon to 5 pm.
OPENING and PERFORMANCE –
On Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 5 :30 pm
The installation letters home / lettres à ma mère consists of two works on paper and a sound device. Looking like abstract paintings, the works on paper represent fragments of text from different sources (personal notes, shopping lists, poems, newspapers) in order to make reading difficult. On the soundtrack, the artist deciphers in a monotone, almost incantatory voice, these "partitions’’. The words are then superimposed in space and on paper, raising confusion.
–Summary of text by Ophélie Chalabi
karen elaine spencer holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from UQAM and a Bachelor’s degree from the Halifax Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her works have been presented in Canada, the United States and Europe, especially during Blogueurs en captivité, a collaboration between Dare-Dare and Folie/Culture (2014), in the Art in Odd Places Festival in New York (2013) and the Performance and Intervention Art Festival (2011). More recently, her work was shown at the Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul (2015). She is represented by ELLEPHANT, a new contemporary art gallery in Montréal. TO SEE — From October 28 to Nobember 22 2015, the ELLEPHANT Gallery presents other excerpts of the letters home / lettres à ma mère series. The gallery is located at 1201 St. Dominique Street. The opening will take place on November 7 from noon to 5 pm.