Please join us for a talk by visiting artist, writer and performer Grace Ndiritu
Date/Time: Mar 29 2018, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Vancouver, Emily Carr University of Art + DesignCost: Free
Grace Ndiritu (Kenya/UK) studied Textile Art at Winchester School of Art, UK; De Ateliers, Amsterdam 1998-2000, Delfina Studio Trust, London (2004-2006), International Residency, Recollets, Paris (2013), Galveston Artists Residency, Texas (2014 -2015), Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Paris (2016-2017), and at numerous other residencies internationally.
Her archive of over forty 'hand-crafted' videos; experimental photography, Post-Hippie Pop-Abstraction painting and shamanic performances have been widely exhibited. Recent solo performances have been featured at Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2017), Glasgow School of Art (2015), Museum Modern of Art, Warsaw (2014), Musee Chasse & Nature and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2013) among others. Recent solo exhibitions include Klowden Mann Gallery, Los Angeles (2016), Glasgow School of Art (Turner Prize season 2015); La Ira De Dios, Buenos Aires (2014), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2007) and the 51st Venice Biennale (2005). Ndiritu's essays on exhibition making and contemporary culture; Healing The Museum (2016) and Ways of Seeing: A New Museum Story for Planet Earth (2017) can be read online alongside her political essays; A Call To White America: A Response to Donald J.Trump (2016) and Notes To a White Left World: Activism in this Current Political Crisis (2017).
Since 2010, Ndiritu has been creating an encyclopedic archive of images, entitled A Quest For Meaning (AQFM). It is a universal narrative, a creation story from the beginning of Time. Told through photography it tells ‘stories’ between similarly disparate objects and events from the Big Bang until now, by conjuring up and making new connections between them. Abstract photography allows Ndiritu to explore the formalism of the still life genre in such a way that what appears in the microcosm of the photograph is a reflection of what occurs in the macrocosm of the universe. Closely connected to her interests in the moving image, the various themes in AQFM perpetually expand to create photographic constellations one of which will be shown at The Blue Hour for Capture Photography Festival at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.
This Visual Art Forum is presented by the Audain Faculty of Art in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Gallery.
Free and open to the public.
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