Isabelle Pauwels opening at Catriona Jeffries
ISABELLE PAUWELS
25 November – 22 December, 2006
Opening Saturday, 25 November, 2 – 5pm
Catriona Jeffries is pleased to announce the gallery’s first solo exhibition of Isabelle Pauwels. Pauwels is a prominent member of a younger generation of Vancouver artists coming to international attention, whose conceptually based practice frequently tests the limits of existing formal structures and gauges the stakes of various social transactions enclosed in these formats. In past works, Pauwels has engaged the conditions of video, architecture, typographical conventions, proprietary symbols and building codes in order to jar the viewer’s customary reception of these—and point to their additional performative implications.
In her new exhibition, Isabelle Pauwels divides, reformats, and interleaves several existing narrative structures throughout the space of the gallery. A reverse chronology of popular entertainment that begins with reality television, spans pre-commercial license era television of the1920’s and 30’s, and ends with theatre, will converge in the form of Pauwels’ More or Less Square: A Book in Three Parts. Pauwels will construct the book itself as the product of an assembly line in the gallery. The exhibition’s additional sound and video components will be distributed throughout the installation and presented on a monitor, a microphone stand, and as a large video projection. These devices are plotted deliberately within the gallery to question what geographical, occupational and prime-time economies are at stake in producing assembly line narratives.
The opening of this exhibition will take place on the afternoon of Saturday, November 25, 2 – 5pm.
CJ Press: Essay by Clint Burnham
For further information about this exhibition please contact Catriona Jeffries, or Jessie Caryl, Curatorial Associate, 604.736.1554
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
www.catrionajeffries.com