GLINTS AND REFLECTIONS
Adad Hannah
Central Gallery
January 18 to March 23, 2019
Curated by Lynn Bannon and Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre. Produced and circulated by the Musée d’art de Joliette.
Adad Hannah was born in New York in 1971, spent his childhood in Israel and England, and moved to Vancouver in the early 1980s. He lives and works in Vancouver and exhibits his work nationally and internationally. This exhibition brings together key works made by Hannah in the past decade that focus on his enduring interest in the photographic image in relation to personal and social histories.
Hannah’s work uses intertwined modes of expression (photography, video, installation and performance) to generate the still image. His videos are presented in a fixed manner and from a frontal perspective, with scenes skillfully constructed and orchestrated by the artist in which participants, whose gestures are fixed without being totally immobile, take part in various activities staged by the artist. Often developing his projects over numerous months or years, doing intensive research and working with large groups of participants through community workshops, Hannah’s staged images draw on references ranging from celebrated historical paintings and sculptures to everyday lives.
Temporality and its complex relationship with photography and video occupies a prominent place in Hannah’s work. He consistently diversifies the means of animating a fixed image, beginning with capturing a pose on video that is held momentarily by the vacillating bodies. Hannah's “living pictures” play with the fascinated and attentive eye of the spectator. In recent work, the artist has endeavoured to generate the illusion of movement by taking a multitude of photographs of a body in action in order to successively articulate all the phases, reminiscent of the chronophotography of artist Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904).
This exhibition brings together key themes that define the narrative of Hannah’s artistic practice: Mirroring the Museum, Reflections of Artworks and Lives Captured. In these varied bodies of work Hannah explores seriality, repetition, recovery, duplication, reflection, the copy and visual citation.
Generously sponsored by Jane Irwin and Ross Hill
Adad Hannah: Glints and Reflections
As a supplement to Adad Hannah: Glints and Reflections curated by Lynn Bannon and Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre, produced and circulated by the Musee dárt de Joliette, the KAG has produced an epublication which includes articles by David S. Rubin, The Brown Foundation Curator of Contemporary Art, San Antonia Museum of Art, Lisa Daniels, Curator, Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery and Adad Hannah, along with a list of works.
Adad Hannah
The Raft of the Medusa (100 Mile House) 8, 2009
colour photograph
100.5 x 133.5 cm
