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Lori Callaghan

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Hiding Truths In Plain Sight

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ADAM PARKER SMITH, PARISIAN LAUNDRY

by Lori Callaghan
07.07.2009

Guns, antlers and NASCAR-numbered bongos: NYC artist Adam Parker Smith explores the human condition by drawing upon fantasy, folklore and reality. Parker Smith explains: “Through this combination, I establish psychological sites for disparate elements to congregate in environments that are simultaneously haunting, familiar and alien.” His installation explores the connections between and among sport, urbanity [...]

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Amid Visions Of Destruction

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ROBERT POLIDORI, MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTRÉAL

by Lori Callaghan
11.06.2009

Robert Polidori has an eye for devastation. His current exhibition of 58 photographs at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal bears witness to the aftermath of civil unrest, natural disasters and man-made catastrophes. The visual impact of the rubble reverberates through the mind and illuminates social histories full of anguish, violence and neglect. The images [...]

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The Culture Of Obsession

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LA BIENNALE DE MONTRÉAL, ÉCOLE BOURGET

by Lori Callaghan
25.05.2009

There is a wooden pin board, headphones and hair twisted into words, but the first thing you notice is the same sequence of words being broadcast by every work: “Obsessions are helpful professionally and inane privately.”

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Love, Lights, Dystopia

STARMANIA OPERA, Opéra de Montréal

by Lori Callaghan
18.03.2009

THE UPPER CRUST VERSUS the underground, totalitarianism versus anarchy and love against all odds, Starmania is the story of a dystopian society where the power struggles of politics, fame and desire compete and a night at the disco changes everything. Credited as the first French-language rock opera, lyricist Luc Plamondon and composer Michel Berger’s 1979 [...]

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The Whimsy of Disjoint

CHUTES, JOYCE YAHOUDA GALLERY

by Lori Callaghan
17.02.2009

Like peering into a child’s box of clippings or at a snapshot of some strange play, David Elliott’s latest exhibition of paintings, Chutes, delights and arouses the inquisitive mind. The puzzle-like qualities of the presentation impels a search for the elusive narrative. Maybe it’s the fragmented distribution of images or that the box setting suggests [...]

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