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JANET CARDIFF

A SURVEY OF WORKS I
NCLUDING COLLABORATIONS WITH GEORGE BURES MILLER

CASTELLO DI RIVOLI
MUSEO D’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA

MAY 21— AUGUST 31, 2003
CURATED BY CAROLYN CHRISTOV-BAKARGIEV

The Castello di Rivoli will present the first mid-career survey of alteration of them. They explore the complexity and vertiginous
the work of Canadian artist Janet Cardiff (b. 1957), including her nature of subjectivity in a highly technological world, as well as
collaborations with George Bures Miller. Originally curated by the constant need to negotiate between presence and loss of
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev for P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, self, memory and experience, sensation and imagination. The
New York in 2001, and following a venue at the Musée d’art exhibition will present all of Cardiff’s major indoor installation
contemporain, Montréal (2002), this project is a newly designed works, such as To Touch (1993), The Dark Pool (1995-96), Forty-
exhibition for Rivoli and the most comprehensive exhibition to Part Motet (2001) and The Paradise Institute (2001), which
date of Cardiff’s work.Janet Cardiff is known for her complex won the special jury prize at the Venice Biennale in 2001. The
‘Walking Pieces’ and audio installations which she has been exhibition will also premiere a new work by Cardiff and Bures
creating since 1991. Her works constantly shift between fact and Miller.
fiction, the experience of the real and our projections, fantasies
and desires. Her works are interactive pieces where visitors are This exhibition is presented with the collaboration of the Musée
asked to touch, listen, and often move through an environment d’art contemporain de Montréal and with the support of the
which is shaped by our perceptions of the real and by the artist’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada.

ABOVE: JANET CARDIFF &
GEORGE BURES MILLER
FHOTO JONARHAN FR ANTINI
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
AND LUHRING AUGUSTINE
GALLERY NEW YORK

LEFT: JANET CARDIFF &
GEORGE BURES MILLER
THE PAR ADISE INSTITUTE
2001 AUDIO, VIDEO,
MIXED MEDIA
COURTESY LUHRING
AUGUSTINE GALLERY
NEW YORK
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