Sara Angelucci
Subtitle: provenance unknown
By: curated by Emelie Chhangur
Contributors: Angelucci, Sara; York University (Toronto, Ont.). Art Gallery
Publisher: Art Gallery of York University
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto, ON
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9780921972693
Subjects: Exhibitions; Expositions
Other titles: Provenance unknown
Description: "Provenance Unknown" brings together two new bodies of work by Toronto artist Sara Angelucci, "The Anonymous Chorus" and "Aviary," both inspired by found, anonymous (unattributed) photographic portraits that the artist purchased on eBay. These works represent a distinct shift in the artist's practice. Here, Angelucci moves away from exploring the familiar to interrogating the anonymous; from investigating her own identity (and family lineage) to tracing the history of others. Throughout her eccentric inquiry into the "live-ness" of the photographic portrait, she performs as well the role of amateur historian, only to very different ends. In these works, she mixes analogue sources and digital techniques and combines artistic genres through collaboration with composers, singers, and ornithologists. "The Anonymous Chorus" and "Aviary" open a temporally suspended space between past and present, where the subjects of these lost portraits may come to life, once again--in a transformed state of being."--
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of York University from April 10 to June 16, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Sounding silence / Emelie Chhangur; title: Portfolio of exhibition; title: Enchanting reimaginings / Claude Baillargeon; title: The anonymous chorus; title: Asleep in the dust / E.C. Woodley; title: Aviary; title: About the birds; title: List of works; title: Acknowledgements.