Exhibition Reception: Louise Menzies - Time to Think Like a Mountain
Wednesday, October 8, 2014, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Contemporary Art Galleries, Art Building
By utilizing objects, images and situations that inform past and present while emphasizing the way things are already represented, New Zealand born artist Louise Menzies explores the University of Connecticut's Thomas J. Dodd Research Center’s archives in her solo exhibition Time to think like a mountain on view this October at the CAG. Menzies' recent work has repeatedly activated particular formats, aesthetics and histories of film and print media. While at UConn, Menzies will respond to the Alternative Press Collection held at the Dodd Center, creating a series of new photographic and paper-based works that merge form and content, raising subtle questions about the values inhabiting certain processes and styles, as seen the predominantly activist and underground press material that comprises the collection.
CAG will also present within the exhibition an adaption of Menzies’ existing16mm film from 2013, The Press, Kodak Eastman 5222. This work, which takes a newspaper printing plant as it’s subject, suggests an analogy between the vast spools of paper passing through print machinery and the 16mm film running through a projector, drawing out Menzies’ interest in the physical process of her materials. Originally commissioned for the solo exhibition World, Business, Lifestyle, Sport at The Physics Room in Christchurch, NZ, the film will be re-edited for it’s presentation at CAG in response to audio visual material the artist has uncovered within the Dodd collections during her residency.
For more information, contact: Professor Barry Rosenberg at (860) 486-1511