Exhibitions 1999 - 2000
February 10 - March 10, 2000
Crime and Punishment
Sheila Ayearst, Jonathan Eeles, Angela Grossmann, Louise Noguchi
Jennifer Rudder, curator
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| Louise Noguchi,
Compilation Portrait #15, 1995, 2 woven b & w photographs,
136.5 x 107 cm. |
Curator Jennifer Rudder presents works by Canadian artists Sheila Ayearst, Angela Grossmann, Louise Noguchi and British crime-scene photographer Jonathan Eeles. The show explores the visual encoding of criminality either in the banal facts of a physical "scene" or in the physiognomy of the criminal. Crime and Punishment contains the internal contradictions of its subject and thus curbs the tendency to spectacle inherent in this material. It exposes the penetration of convention, expectation, and context in shaping the emotional impact of visual material. In each case, the cues of criminality are blurred and the comfortable categories of social difference are allowed to seep into one another.
Toured by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Canada.