1992
shifting thresholds
Gallery 101 (Ottawa, Ontario)

The work consists of three colour photographic prints, multiple black and white glass transfers with acetates laid over the stairwell, plaster work and the following text inlaid into a free-standing three tiered shelving unit also containing a woman's hand-made burial shroud used in the Jewish Orthodox burial ritual.

 

SHIFTING THRESHOLDS
(passages)
shrouded rites
obscure rights		  
 
MONUMENTAL representations commemorate bodies
markers and surfaces of grief reflect layers of mourning  
manifesting outward / boundaries

b
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public and private  
 
options and privileges dependant on  
 
social restrictions
behaviours RITUALIZED  
uphold the visual culture of
continuity and difference
  
   
personal identity
replaced by signs serving more than		  
 
the mere remembrance of that INDIVIDUAL fabrications and manipulations of his(her/s)tory / heritage
patterns woven in the social fabric secure a culture from fragmentation
  
 
the hand sewn cloth alleges an individuality (
  
 
identity)
only to a point

what spaces open as a vast indeterminate

within the social and personal

shifting thresholds1how do the SILENCES get filled?