Moyra Davey My Necropolis

Friday, February 12 to Saturday, March 20, 2010

Opening reception Friday February 12, 8pm

 

 

For Moyra Davey's last exhibition at goodwater in 2007, called Fifty Minutes, Davey photographed a number of "stills" of her then new video, Fifty Minutes, and printed the photographs to the scale of the goodwater mailers, 11" x 17". She mailed these folded, addressed, stamped photographs to goodwater where one was selected and reproduced as the actual mailer. For Davey's current exhibition, where she will be showing another new video, My Necropolis, Davey will be presenting a large-scale folded photograph, which comprises a grid of scans of folded photographs that the artist made and mailed to friends during her year-long residency in Paris, France in 2008/09. Included in the exhibition will be an early edition published by Shark Editions entitled Money Box, 1993. As well, there will be a special, signed/numbered edition mailer (ed. 25) which includes a folded photograph made during Davey's Paris residency.

Moyra Davey (b.1958) lives and works in New York. In 2008 she was the subject of an expansive twenty-year survey at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard, including a published monograph: Long Life Cool White: Photographs by Moyra Davey. In New York, she exhibited with Colin de Land's American Fine Arts, Co. in 2003, 1999, 1996, and 1994, and from 2005-2008, she was a partner in the collaborative gallery Orchard. Recent group exhibitions include Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2008); and Calendar of flowers, gin bottles, steak bones (with James Welling and Claire Pentecost), Orchard, New York (2007). She will be exhibiting at the Kuntshalle, Basel in June 2010. She is represented by Murray Guy in New York.

 

guelph goodwater and Pavilion Projects

present

Ulla von Brandenburg & Julie Favreau

January 12th to February 6th 2010

Finissage: Friday, February 5th from 8 pm

  

 

    

TORONTO, January 11th, 2010 – Guelph goodwater and Pavilion Projects are pleased to present the work of Ulla von Brandenburg (Paris) and Julie Favreau (Montreal). Featuring a single video work by each artist, this exhibition is brought together through the artists’ shared interest in the correspondence between reverie and place. The exhibition will be on view from January 12th, with a finissage on February 5th, starting at 8pm.

Ulla Von Brandenburg investigates historical socio-cultural practices including the occult, magic, early psychoanalysis and modernist theatre through a highly crafted system of objects and moving-image works. Singspiel (2009) continues von Brandenburg’s exploration of the mechanics of theatre and the formal aspects of staging. Filmed as a single tracking shot through the Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, the work follows the movements of the house’s ten inhabitants. Throughout the film each character signs their own refrain, intoning their destinies and problems while revealing their place in the narrative. Prepared as a psychological schema between a family and their home, von Brandenburg’s film positions the rationalist, modern architecture of Villa Savoye against the human life dwelling within it. Ulla von Brandenburg is represented by Gallery Art:Concept, Paris, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, and Pila Corrias Gallery, London. Recent exhibitions include the 2009 Venice Biennale, the 2nd Turin Triennale (2008) and a solo show at Le Plateau/FRAC Iles-de-France (2009).

Previous solo shows include CCA, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2008); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2008); Kunsthalle, Zürich (2006) and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006).

Julie Favreau’s work brings together sculptural, video, and performative elements in order to construct and consider a cast of potential psychological models. Often working with material culled from thrift stores, flea markets and vacated estates, she prepares an environment where her performers are positioned at odds with their surroundings. Mr (2009) features a single male figure who appears to have fallen under the spell of his room. Eddied about by an enchanting array of ornaments he succumbs to a choreographed exchange with the room’s furnishing and decorations.

Since 2005 Julie Favreau’s work has been shown in festivals and galleries within Canada and France. In 2009 she presented Pièce Possesion over a number of stages, beginning with the group exhibition The Wrong Corpse at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal and concluding at l‘Écart. AXENÉO7 will host a residency-exhibition by the artist in 2010. She works and lives in Montreal. Guelph goodwater: 234 Queen Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M5A 1S3 Opening Hours: Friday and Saturday from 1-pm to 6 pm, or by appointment 647 406 5052

Press Contact: Maryse Larivière Pavilion Projects mlariviere@pavilionprojects.com 519 760 0913

image credit: Ulla von Brandenburg, Singspiel (Songplay), 2009. B&W film, 14 mins, sound. Courtesy Art:Concept, Paris