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Calgary artist Robin Arseneault installed her exhibition, Complications of the Cowardess. This work explores a personal narrative where objects and drawings are influenced by private ‘incidences.’ Works such as intimate watercolour drawings, cut-out paper knives and a fabric ‘menacing gray cloud’ are laced with an edge of irony (self mockery). Fear, anxiety and paralysis are represented by non-limbs/prosthetic legs/missing parts. Each work alludes to the inability to act or ‘deliver’ oneself, especially in social/relational settings. Humour is used as a form of cover-up - the idea of laughter to distract states of sadness, fear or melancholy.
ranne@telusplanet.net
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