Unbidden (Channel)

2003, single-channel video

A figure dressed in traditional Korean clothing floats in what appears to be a river, perhaps the Han, but is in fact Paul Lake, near Kamloops BC. Two places merge into one, condensing several stories that follow the flow of memory. The body lies suspended, sinking then reappearing periodically to the rhythm of the water that sometimes submerges it completely. The play of superimposition and transparency creates the illusion of a ghostly presence, an intangible body on the edge of the visible and the invisible, of dreams and reality. Is this woman simply in repose? Or is her body a corpse drifting toward its final resting place?

- Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre

Unbidden (Channel), 2003, (video still), single-channel video, 5:36

Unbidden (Channel), 2003, (installation view), photo credit: Lucien Lisabelle

Previous
Previous

(it is this/it is that)

Next
Next

Welcome Stranger Welcome Home