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The Kiss
2007, 2 channel DVD installation, 15 minute loop, color, silent		 Toronto artist Kelly Mark, whose work was last seen in Seattle at the Henry Art Gallery in 2006, will be featured in a solo exhibition at Platform Gallery. Mark's video, drawings, installations and sculptures have centered on her awareness of time, its passing, wasting, marking, keeping, through the recording of repetitive tasks and ordinary unnoticed moments. Of her interest in the mundane and everyday, the artist says, I have always had an intense preoccupation with the differing shades of pathos and humour found in the repetitive mundane tasks, routines and rituals of everyday life. Hidden within these spans of time can be found startling moments of poetic individuation, and an imprint of the individual within the commonplace rituals of society. Individuation, especially within this uniformity, although subtle and frequently paradoxical, is something I find myself returning to again and again. Through my will to order and my frequently inane sense of humour my objective is the investigation, documentation and validation of these singular marked and unmarked moments of our lives... 

In addition to sculptures and photographs, Mark will be exhibiting "REM" an installation featuring a video mashup consisting of 170 different sources taken from television.

Mark's work has been exhibited widely across Canada (Contemporary Art Gallery, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver; The Power Plant, Art Gallery of Ontario, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto) and internationally including the US, Australia, and Europe. She represented Canada at the Sydney Biennale (1998) and the Liverpool Biennale (2006). A retrospective exhibition of her work titled "Stupid Heaven," organized by the JM Barnicke and Blackwood Galleries of the University of Tornonto, will travel to other Canadian museums throughout 2008. The exhibition was reviewed in the December 2007 issue of Artforum.

Review: Seattle P.I.
Link to artist's CV


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