Kelly Mark: Glow Video Installation Series (Horror, Suspense, Romance, Porn, Kung-Fu)
"Suspense"
@ YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto 2005"Porn"
@ Musee D'Art Contemporain, Montreal 2005Horror/Suspense/Romance/Porn/Kung-Fu - 2005
Multi-Channed DVD installations, silent. 15 minute loop.
Televisions, dvd player, signal booster, co-axial cables and splitters. (installation dimensions vary)Edition of 5 each w/ 1 artist proof
"In horror/suspense/romance/porn/kung-fu, Kelly Mark fills YYZ’s Y gallery with the glow of fifteen television monitors. This new video-installation is part of Mark’s ongoing investigation of «television» as a simple source material, which in the past has included such works as Prime Time (1999) and Glow House (2001-2005). Mark has sought to capture a mere suggestion or impression of each filmic genre or style by simply recording the cast light of each of these films as they bathed her apartment walls. For horror/suspense/romance/porn/kung-fu Mark has produced five unique video installations, each representing one of the five different genres represented in the exhibition title. Quiet and unassuming, these works provoke the investigation of liminal modes of perception and the possibility of understanding the familiar, ambient glow of the television medium as an almost physical thing." - Greg Elgstrand (Director: YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto)
exhibition history> (in whole or in parts)
2005 YYZ Artists Outlet (Toronto ON); 2005 Musee D'Art Contemporain (Montreal PQ); 2006 Third Space (St John NB); 2006 Associates Gallery (London UK);Collections: "Porn" - Musse D'Art Contemporain, Montreal Quebec.
"Porn"
@3rd Space Gallery, St. John NB, 2006
photo credit: Rae-Seung Kang
