September 6 - November 4, 2011

york corridor vitrines

Memorial for a Stranger

Andréanne Godin

Andréanne Godin’s Derwent Anniversary Watercolour Box

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Drawing on a recent body of work relating to loss and memory, Concordia MFA (Fibres) student Andréanne Godin has been working in situ in the York Corridor vitrines since August with the intention of elaborating a memorial through the mutable natural landscape. Throughout the length of the glass corridor, Godin will use up the entire contents of a gifted Derwent Anniversary Watercolour Box in the creation of a landscape reminiscent of the areas surrounding her hometown. Both the materials and the landscape are loaded: the watercolours once belonged to a stranger, their original owner now deceased, and were handed to her with the responsibility of care and good use; her home region is now the location of several mining projects which have lead to the displacement of homes and the disappearance of certain areas.  Interestingly, in order to spare the residents of the town from what Godin describes as the industrial turmoil of the mining, they plan to construct a “natural wall” around the area – a new/artificial landscape to contain the roar from the voidal depths within.

Godin will speak to the process of the project, the effects of durational work, and the social aspect of private practices as public works on Wednesday October 26, 11:30am - 12:45pm in room EV 6-735 (Concordia University, EV Building, 1515 Ste. Catherine St. W., same building as the FOFA Gallery).

 

EVENT:

MEMORIAL FOR A STRANGER:  ARTIST TALK:  Andréanne Godin

Wednesday, October 26, 11:30AM -12:45PM

EV 6-735

This room is located on the sixth floor of the EV building (same building as FOFA)