• Ginny Reed

    Date posted: January 10, 2011 Author: jolanta
    My practice is concerned with contrasting different aspects of production, including video, photography, drawing, installation, and performance. My artworks and performances explore the accumulation and dispersal of everyday materials, highlighting the residues and remnants of “events.” Through an abiding concern with the idea of trace, I explore dematerialization and the relationship between the “fixed” and the “live.” Using ephemeral materials, I often create volatile structures or forms that have the potential for movement, dispersal, or collapse while creating visual metaphors that employ and explore ideas of gravity, time, matter, and mass. It is the potential for the dissipation of materials/props and the dissolution of an event/moment that interest me.

    Ginny Reed

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    My practice is concerned with contrasting different aspects of production, including video, photography, drawing, installation, and performance. My artworks and performances explore the accumulation and dispersal of everyday materials, highlighting the residues and remnants of “events.” Through an abiding concern with the idea of trace, I explore dematerialization and the relationship between the “fixed” and the “live.” Using ephemeral materials, I often create volatile structures or forms that have the potential for movement, dispersal, or collapse while creating visual metaphors that employ and explore ideas of gravity, time, matter, and mass. It is the potential for the dissipation of materials/props and the dissolution of an event/moment that interest me.

    In this Magic Kingdom fantasy, landscapes taken from Witches and Wizards, a children’s magic coloring book, have been attached onto graph paper. The cutout fairy castles’ subtle patterning is formed by pigment that colors if water is added, providing the latent “magic” quality, and contrasts with the grid of the graph paper background, with its own allusions to “science” and “truth.” Both the imagery and media reflect and recall the cultural constructions and myths about landscape, history, and heritage that are largely projected through the entertainment industry. From Camelot to the Pilgrims, Narnia to Oz, Harry Potter to Disney, ideas about distant lands and the past are never far away and serve to reinforce deeply embedded cultural ideology.

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