I Love You

2016, video installation

Children: Rose and William
Singer: Maria Lundin
Editing: Jenn Norton
Sound Recording: Eve Egoyan
Sound Design: Isabelle Noel

In today’s jargons of media, advertising, entertainment industry and politics, words are at risk of losing their impact. The two children say the rather common phrases “I miss you. I am happy.” and in French “Vous me manquez. Je suis heureuse”. When you hear their gentle voices (recorded and reversed twice) the words are intelligible, but estranged. This prompts the alerted viewer briefly away from the irony of the ‘urban wallpaper’ of advertising. constant noise and media, to listen to and reflect upon these common words in a more profound way. The work resists interpretation and decoding and eludes a symbolic reading, skirting reality. It is a one-way message, these child messengers are their own reality.

EXHIBITIONS and PUBLICATIONS
2019 As part of Fylkingen – New Music and Intermedia Art, as part of Powerplant Festival Act 3, Experimental Directions, Drawings, Expressions and Visions. Stockholm, Sweden. More info here.
2018 As part of Ouroboros – immersive group exhibition, St Anne’s Anglican Church, Toronto. Publication here.
2017 As part of Houses and Whispers: Gunilla Josephson, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto
2016 As part of Houses and Whispers: Gunilla Josephson, Rodman Hall Art Centre, St Catharines