Amanda Dunsmore | Agreement
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Mitchell Art Gallery 1110 104 Avenue (Room 11-121, Allard Hall), Edmonton, Alberta
Amanda Dunsmore, “BILLY'S MUSEUM [still],” 2004
video (colour, sound), 19:40 minutes (courtesy of the Artist)
Artist Talk and Reception: Wednesday, June 19, 6 – 9 p.m.
AGREEMENT, a new exhibition featuring artworks from Irish artist Amanda Dunsmore’s research-intensive practice that investigates societal transformation via portraiture.
Following the signing of the Belfast ‘Good Friday’ Agreement on April 10, 1998, Dunsmore began a dedicated practice of filming video portraits of each of the fourteen signatories – a creative process that took two decades to complete. The resulting artwork, AGREEMENT (2004 – 2023) asks for a similarly committed viewership: seeing the work in its entirety would require weekly visits, as each portrait is being screened for a single week during the fourteen-week exhibition.