The Patron Saint of Waterskiers and Other Entities

Solo exhibition, Richmond Art Gallery, BC, Canada
11 September - 16 November, 2008

This installation takes the form of a garden comprised of four inter-related installations. Each combines aspects of landscape, architecture, installation, video and furniture and is dedicated to a fictional character. These characters are representative of particular ideas connected to “holding together” social space. The “Patron Saint of Waterskiers” section, for instance, explores balance, common belief, questions of shared agency and the maintenance of tensions creating social connections. These constructions are both silly fictions and serious exercises in contemplating sustainable sociality. The work is structured metaphorically like a character-based storybook (rendered in ever-changing, four-dimensional space). Patron Saint of Waterskiers will be inhabited by the artist and moved around sporadically over the course of the exhibition.