City attracts artists from all corners
TWO Parisian artists are the envy of their compatriots this summer, for their unusual summer vacation locale.
"They said, 'We're leaving to Greece to go boating, and you are going to the place to be this summer, Winnipeg,' " Marion Scemama said.
But Winnipeg wasn't always the alluring art destination it has been come to known as by Scemama and her fellow Parisian artists.
Scemama and her partner François Pain were invited by the Plug-In Contemporary Art Institute for their annual summer workshop, but the couple were initially unsure of what the city had to offer them.
"We looked at the map and saw that it was really in the middle of Canada, but it was a city that we had rarely heard about," Scemama said, in French.
An exhibit called Collapsing of Time and Space in an Ever Expanding Universe exhibit in Paris changed that.
"It's incredible, this exhibit in Paris, really, it was a revelation, a revelation of a city -- of its inhabitants, of its artists, of the story of the city," Scemama says.
The exhibit that put Winnipeg on the map for the couple and their friends looks, from behind, like a woman with long, straight black hair looking out the window of a richly furnished hotel room.
Walk around the installation, and you see it is actually an aboriginal man in drag, crying, and the view from the window is of mountains above a plain where bison roam, where the man himself is astride a horse.
The exhibit led the two French artists to accept Winnipeg's Plug-In Contemporary Art Institute's invitation to work with them this summer.
Plug-In's Summer Institute gives about 15 artists from Winnipeg and around the world a space to work independently and collaborate. This year, artists are coming from Brazil, Iceland, Germany and France.
The institute has a different theme each year, but they're not always easy to pin down; after some thought, Plug-In gallery director Anthony Kiendl says the best way to describe this year's theme is "the construction of space."
Two of the faculty members hired to lead this year's institute are installation artists, makers of what Kiendl calls "multimedia walk-in environments," rooms bubbling over with activity, covered top to bottom with fabric, paint, wallpaper, furniture, light displays and words.
Scemama and Pain are here to work on a documentary about David Wojnarowicz, the New York artist whose own film depicting ants covering the body of Jesus Christ was pulled from a Smithsonian exhibit last November amid great controversy.
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