Gallery 44 Database
of Contemporary Canadian Photography

Exhibitions: Undertones

Exhibition Name: Undertones
From: Mar 13, 2008
To: Apr 12, 2008
Gallery Space: Main Gallery
Artists: No artist information was found.
Description: Undertones is part of the Canadian Artist Spotlight co-presented by Images Festival and Gallery 44. We are pleased to present the world premiere of The Sirens and the Toronto premiere of Countdown. The Sirens is a new sound and video installation incorporating 16mm, Super 8 and video, guitar amps and a “slide” show. In this work, Henricks continues to explore themes of sound and music, textual elements, repetition and the body. Henricks locates the body within sound,


the physicality of sound and its reactions and effects on the physical. Extreme close ups of technology related to sound recording and production reveal this relationship: a hand places the needle on the record, a UV meter quivers, acupuncture needles seem to tremble and water ripples rhythmically from sound vibrations. Countdown is a silent single screen video installation. Henricks uses items found within his home to create a numerical countdown from 30 to 1 in 30 seconds. Shot and edited in camera on Super 8 the artist used his internal clock to intuitively estimate the one-second intervals.


Books, vitamin bottles, videocassette labels, measuring tape and playing cards are used to construct the countdown. Countdown looks at how numbers pervade our daily life through time, money and communication, how the body exists in intervals and how intervals subsequently are imposed on the body.
Media & Techniques:

body/sex/gender:

body

subjects:

technology

themes:

time
representation
order/chaos
memory
language/text
materiality

This database record last modified: Wed, Feb 18, 2009