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Canadian Artist Spotlight |
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Seed |
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Leslie Peters in person!
It was with the 400 series of short videos, in 1999, that
Peters really began to explore the possibilities of cityscape and
landscape, which have been recurrent subjects. These videos offer
the most literal representation of her aesthetic of the “between,”
since they are all works made on the road, driving from point a
to point b. At the same time, they oscillate between representation
and abstraction, estrangement and intimate familiarity (conveyed
often through the country songs playing in the car while the video
is being shot). The idea of this kind of between state,
neither one nor the other, manifests itself in the videos in any
number of ways: a landscape shot at daybreak in seed (2002);
a camera’s forward and backward zooms overlaid in basin
(2002); or the inextricable layering of two scenes in the sublime
divine (2003). interference (2003), a recent collaboration
with Dara Gellman, marks a move towards work on a more ambitious
scale. This unsettling look at the menace and solitude of suburbia
reworks television crime-scene footage to evoke a distinct foreboding
from our side of the yellow tape.
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theory
Leslie Peters & Peter Gmehling | Canada | 3 min. | video | 1997 |
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selections from the 400 series:
401:01
Leslie Peters | Canada | 1.5 min. | video | 1998
for ever more
Leslie Peters | Canada | 2.5 min. | video | 1999
thinking of you
Leslie Peters | Canada | 3 min. | video | 1999
more and more
Leslie Peters | Canada | 3.5 min. | video | 1999
cheatin heart
Leslie Peters | Canada | 2.5 min. | video | 1999 |
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surge-o-matic
Leslie Peters & Lisa Foad | Canada | 10 min. | video | 2002 |
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seed
Leslie Peters | Canada | 4.5 min. | video | 2002 |
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basin
Leslie Peters | Canada | 4 min. | video | 2002 |
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interference
Leslie Peters & Dara Gellman | Canada | 17 min. | video | 2003 |
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divine
Leslie Peters | Canada | 5.5 min. | video | 2003 |
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excerpt from the series beautiful lies:
work-in-progress | 2004 |
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In addition to this selected retrospective screening of video
works, Images and the Women’s Art Resource Centre host a new
three-channel installation called becoming.
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