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January 12 to February 23, 2008 Susan Bozic The Dating Portfolio |
Opening and Book Launch Saturday January 12 3pm to 5pm (artist will be in attendance) Artist Talk Wednesday January 16 7pm at SFU Vancouver, Room 1600 |
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Romance is always changing—it has always been the same. The cinema has long-ago arrogated to itself the task of representing romance's pleasures and foibles, while the global revival of staged, performance-based photography that began with Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall's work in the late 1970s has rarely taken romance as its subject. Susan Bozic's The Dating Portfolio documents her character's dates with a male mannequin and reflects on consumer society's pursuit of the good life and advertising's "Hollywood ending" approach to spending one's way to happiness. Bozic expands the boundaries of performative photography and indirectly references the internet dating phenomenon by staging dates with someone a little bit "different." Her project merges the optimism of movie-star promotional photographs with questions about both the tradition of courtship and its current state. Susan Bozic completed her BFA at Concordia University in 1998 and currently lives and works in Vancouver. Opening & book launch: Saturday Jan 12, 3-5pm The exhibition is accompanied by a 64-page catalogue with texts by Gordon Hatt and Bill Jeffries. The catalogue, co-published with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and Rodman Hall Arts Centre, includes new images from Bozic's follow-up series, The Dating Portfolio: Meeting The Parents. The artist will be in attendance. Artist talk: Wednesday January 16, 7pm At SFU Vancouver, 515 West Hastings Street, rm 1600 Lunchtime talks and tours of the exhibition: Wednesday January 16 at 12:05pm Thursday January 17 at 12:35pm Wednesday January 23 at 12:35pm Additional talks for classes or other groups may be scheduled by appointment. Contact us at: 778.782.4266. FREE PARKING! January 12 only The card for the show, or a printout from our website, is your visitor parking pass in any Visitor Lot at SFU (face up on dashboard or hand to parking attendant). Curated by Bill Jeffries. |
He let me pick the movie, 2005, C-print, 30" x 40" 
Just announced! Panel discussion Dating Photographs and Dating Mannequins Tuesday February 5 at 7pm SFU Vancouver Campus, room 1600 515 West Hastings Street Please join us for a panel discussion on the possibilities (or impossibilities) of love and socializing in a universe dominated by the internet, and on the relationship of present-day romance to contemporary art. Panelists: Grant Arnold, Curator, Vancouver Art Gallery Jessie Caryl, Vancouver-based writer and curator Bill Jeffries, Director/Curator, Simon Fraser University Gallery |