My first house - Lenka Novakova
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My first house - Lenka Novakova
un centre dédié à la production et à la présentation de l’art, des pratiques contemporaines et des nouveaux médias a centre dedicated to the production and the presentation of art, contemporary practices and new media 4001, rue Berri, local 301, Montréal (Québec) H2L 4H2 exhibition www.oboro.net Tél. : 514 844-3250 [email protected] Rivers and Skies — My first house Lenka Novakova Opening: Saturday, September 18, at 5 pm Artis Talk at 4:30 pm September 18 – October 23, 2010 © L. Novakova, 2010 “Moving the house piece by piece... The land never belonged to me—Neither I belong to the land…” L. Novakova, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, June 2010 L enka Novakova pulls apart the burnt remains of a house, piece by piece, rebuilding it in OBORO’s exhibition space, reconstructing not only its architecture, but an entire landscape. On the banks of the St. Lawrence River, having discovered the fire-ravaged house while doing a residency at Est-Nord-Est (Saint-Jean-Port-Joli), the artist made it her anchorage—a place from which to study the complex and subtle phenomena that manifest themselves through sky and water. Lenka Novakova took her post within the desolate structure. She contemplated the tides, the clouds, and the variations in light, deepening her understanding of the landscape and of those traces of human memory that survive. Lenka Novakova was born in the Czech Republic, received her undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, and MFA from Concordia University in Montreal. Her practice is concerned with an ephemeral poetic quality a moment of recreation and reflective thought through constructed environments, simple technologies and moving light; with crossover in cinema and theatre technologies. She has been recipient of numerous fellowships, This dialogue between river, sky and house is patiently documented and presented in the gallery. Within the reconstructed architecture, through its skeleton and interstices, she projects videos of the original landscape. Like a memory that envelops the building, the river’s waters continue to ebb and flow as the light deepens into red. The changing dimensions of these natural phenomena echo the uncertain and ephemeral nature of human life. For Lenka Novakova this is a sensorial quest, as well as a meditation on memory and temporality. awards and has an active exhibition record in Canada and abroad. Recent fellowships included Coring Museum of Glass, NY, Urban Glass, NY, Vermont Studio Center, VT or La Chambre Blanche, Quebec. Recent solo exhibitions included Cambridge Public Art Gallery, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (Fofa) and others. <www.lenkanovak.com> - 30 Contact: OBORO, September 2, 2010 The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, from noon to 5 pm OBORO remercie ses membres pour leur appui, ainsi que les organismes suivants pour leur généreux soutien financier : le service des arts médiatiques et le service des arts visuels du Conseil des Arts du Canada, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, le Conseil des arts de Montréal, le ministère du Patrimoine canadien, le ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec, Emploi-Québec, le Service du développement culturel et de la qualité du milieu de vie de la Ville de Montréal, la Caisse populaire Desjardins du Mont-Royal, le Cirque du Soleil, ainsi que les compagnies Discreet, Adobe, Computer Systems Odessa et Metric Halo.