Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes: ddmmyyyy
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Artspeak Gallery 233 Carrall Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 2J2
Opening Friday November 2, 2018, 8pm
Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes’ exhibition ddmmyyyy brings together itinerant images, photographs that appear as stock images, and sound to consider and critique notions of image-making. In unison with the Gastown Steam clock, Holmes’ Fanfare will commence at midday; and subsequently every hour on the hour act as a marker of time throughout the day, until the gallery’s close at 5pm. While the short instrumental introduction serves a very particular purpose to ‘announce’ and act to demarcate time in a way that builds anticipation of an event, Holmes’s Fanfare negates this function through its superfluous nature within a photographic installation. Fanfare provides the formal structure that imposes a regime of viewing as it announces the imagery within ddmmyyyy. Frivolous in its flourishes, Fanfare riffs off of the sound of sporting spectacle, in particular that of horse racing venues.