Performing Home
Richard Hines
Nicole Raufeisen and Ryan Witt

March 15– April 14, 2007
Reception: Thursday March 15, 6 - 8 pm

part of Toronto's Images Festival



Gallery 44 is pleased to present Performing Home.
This exhibition pairs Vancouver based collaborative team Nicole Raufeisen & Ryan Witt’s single channel video entitled
Defenders of the Faith and Halifax based Richard Hines’ photographic series Pictures from (Inside)
that creates an alternative perspective to the adage ‘home sweet home.’


Image: Nicole Raufeisen and Ryan Witt

Defenders of the Faith was produced in an abandoned house bordering Langley and Surrey in British Columbia.
Nicole Raufeisen & Ryan Witt occupied the house for a period of three weeks, where they performed a
variety of documented actions. As a means of exploring purification, performance, transformation, and spatial
memory, the artists unearthed a resonates between the mythology of the unicorn and Judas Priest’s 1983 classic
rock song Defenders of the Faith.


Image: Richard Hines

Pictures from (Inside) are photographs of staged moments or fictions centred exclusively on Richard Hines’
immediate family. This series, which started over six years ago, has evolved into a visual interpretation of
emotional connection and disconnection creating a sense of intimacy and distance. Pictures from (Inside) strives
to better understand the emotional complexities that come with even the most pedestrian activities of family.


Nicole Raufeisen & Ryan Witt have worked collaboratively since 2002 and are graduates of Simon Fraser
University in Vancouver. Their interdisciplinary practice has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally.
Recent activities include a solo exhibition at the Or gallery in Vancouver and residencies at both the Bemis
Centre for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska and the Drake Hotel in Toronto. Currently, they are
represented by the Republic Gallery.

Richard Hines was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He has earned an MFA from NSCAD University in Halifax,
a BFA from the University of Manitoba, and a BA from the University of Winnipeg. He teaches at NSCAD University
and Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. His work has been published and exhibited in Canada and
the US and can be seen at upcoming exhibitions at the Beaverbrook Gallery in Fredericton and Platform in Winnipeg.
His work is represented by Patrick Mikhail Gallery in Ottawa and Michael Gibson Gallery in London ON.
www.patrickmikhailgallery.com


EXHIBITION BROCHURE AND ESSAY BY ANDREW DANSON DANUSHEVSKY