Sunday, March 18, 2007

Vernissage @ Articule

SALON
Yudi Sewraj (Montreal)


Exhibition from March 23 to April 29, 2007
Opening: Friday March 23 at 7pm
Artist's talk: Saturday April 28 at 3pm


The installation Salon by Yudi Sewraj explores ideas of location and history, and includes different elements of a living room. A couch, arm chair, house plant and coffee table are contained within plywood crates and kept cool with the help of a collection of old fridges. An unnamed elderly man is presented on an old television. The compressors hum in the background while the man lights a cigarette and labours to breathe.


"When a film is shot on location I imagine a curious process unfolding. A fictional story is enacted in a real place. The house is a real house, one that has been rented for the duration of the shoot. A lot of items are bought at thrift stores or yard sales. Each of these objects has a history, or has existed in a previous context(s). One object comes in collision with another. All these disparate objects form a phantom presence within the film." YS


Yudi Sewraj has lived and worked in Montreal since 1993. Over the last ten years he has developed a body of short experimental videos exploring ideas of authenticity and the particular relationship between the camera and the subject. From 2002-2005, he lived in San Diego to complete his masters degree at the University of California San Diego where he produced two installations; Monologue Table - Rehearsal for an Apology (2003) and A Cold Night in February (2005).




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