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Susan Giles
Here and There
October 25 - December 7, 2002
Vedanta Gallery is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition
of Chicago based artist Susan Giles. Giles has been creating
video work for the past two years that centers around the
shortcomings and complexities of language. This body of work
was initially spurred by the artist's struggle to communicate
in the Indonesian language while studying in Bali. Her subsequent
videos involved dissecting and manipulating monologues that
explored the many aspects of conversation including the pauses
and verbal markers that enhance meaning in everyday speech.
Susan Giles' latest exhibition consists of two main video
projects exploring the notion of foreignness. A double video
projection titled Here and There juxtaposes video footage
taken from two different tourist destinations. Images of a
volcano in Bali play concurrently with images of downtown
Chicago. The two distant locations often appear formally identical,
as shapes and patterns in the environment correspond, and
both places' identities gradually overlap. The second installaton
consists of four monitors depicting several individuals reciting
all of the foreign words they could recall. The result is
a hodgepodge of disassociated words spoken without inflection
or emotion, humorously addressing one's inability to communicate
through the barriers of disparate languages.
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Susan Giles lives and works in Chicago. She is currently
participating in a two person exhibition with Jeff Carter
titled Wavespace at Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri-St.Louis
curated by Barry Blinderman. Recently she has exhibited in
Chicago! Chicago! Video Art >From the Windy City at The Cheekwood
Museum in Nashville, TN; Detourism at The Renaissance Society
in Chicago; Art in Motion II at the Santa Monica Museum of
Art and Video Ergo Sum at the Kunsthalle Goppingen, Germany.
Image:
Here and There,
2002 double DVD projection
TRT: 8:00
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