Edifice

Nov 14 — Dec 16, 1995
Field:

Exhibition

Location:

Western Front

Description:

Edifice was a video installation by Kathleen Moynahan informed by the Greek myth of Pygmalion. Drawing on the myth in which Pygmalion sculpted an ideal woman from stone, Moynahan treated television and video imagery as a contemporary material to construct the female body. As viewers moved around the installation, the work alternated between impressions of solidity and fragmentation.

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Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.