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The Face Stayed East The Mouth Went West
opens at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery,
Charlottetown, PEI, October 5, 2014
Confederation Centre Art Gallery
130 Queen Street
Charlottetown, PE
1 800 565 0278
artgallery@confederationcentre.com
Hours:
Summer/Fall Hours:
May 12 until October 28:
Daily, Monday-Sunday, 9 am-5 pm
Winter/Spring Hours:
October 29-May 10:
Wednesday to Saturday, 11 am-5 pm, Sunday 1-5 pm, Monday and Tuesday, Closed
October 5, 2014 – February 1, 2015
Montreal-based artist duo Séripop (Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum) is known for temporary installations that respond playfully and critically to the built environment. The 50th anniversary of the opening of Confederation Centre of the Arts is an occasion for the reconsideration of the architecture of the complex through exhibitions, research, and sculptural installations. Accordingly, Séripop was invited to create The Face Stayed East, the Mouth Went West as a timely response to the Centre's past and present. The work heightens attention to the physical details of the building complex, while creating an immersive space of colour and surface that contrasts intensely with the unadorned formality and purity of the architecture. The artists deliberately make use of flexible materials with connotations of use, performance, and ornament-coloured paper, digital imagery, scaffolding-as well as the tactic of "quoting" the building's layout and appearance in order to activate and open a space for critical reflection on the ostensibly self-sufficient and permanent "concrete bubble" of the architecture.
-Pan Wendt, curator