culebra
Galerie McClure, Montreal, Canada

culebra is a one-channel digital video projection that aligns itself with the muralist sense of narrative in that it references landscape (that of a woman’s tattooed body) and the context of pulling memory and history out of the skin. This video has many references to painting in its visual abstraction and movement of the camera scanning the body as if with a paintbrush. The self-portraits demonstrate a new reconsideration of ideas of traditional self-portraiture in relation to media culture.

Two small light boxes illuminating photographic documentation from the performance, woman willing to defend her hotel were presented in the small gallery space. A large frame coffee-table light box containing an image from a new series of self-portraits entitled, maskara is triggered by an infra-red sensor as the viewer entered the large gallery space behind a black partitioning that presented the video projection, culebra.