Annie MacDonell

The Castle and other works

Opening: Thursday, January 24 at 7 PM

January 24 to February 29 2008

The Castle and other works investigates the ways in which vaudeville, silent era cinema and other deposed forms of popular entertainment continue to shape our engagement with contemporary images. The exhibition combines video, audio, slide and sculptural elements in three interrelated works. Attempting to reveal and complicate the mechanisms of visual representation and strategies of presentation, MacDonell takes us through a range of perceptual experiences, from seduction and spectacle, to alienation and distance.

Annie MacDonell is a Toronto-based artist. She studied film and photography at Ryerson University, followed by an MFA at Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains in France. Since then she has been making film, photography, collage and installation in equal parts. She has exhibited and screened her work in Canada, Europe and the United States. Recent activities include a solo show at Gallery TPW in Toronto, and group shows at The Warehouse Gallery in Syracuse, New York, The Foreman Art Gallery of Bishops University in Quebec and the Blackwood Gallery in Toronto.