Brenda Feist
Local(i)ty 2 at Gallery 2 in Grand Forks, BC
Brenda Feist continues her investigations of metaphor. She examines the base of our knowledge, through the known and the felt self which begins in childhood and continues throughout our lifetimes. Her conceptual interest is in the denigration of the female self and the felt self that has a base in an intuitive base of knowledge. Her use of the blackboard and the theatre sets underpin her questions and concerns of the societal mapping of the individual.
The works in this exhibition are the result of the artist’s ongoing cultural production since 2012.
Artist Statement:
A wall of description stands between us and our experience. But a "self closed to any world beyond description loses its ability to transform. It lives by duplicates. Static knowledge keeps it asleep, within the wall of 'me', like a framed picture or specimen in a jar." (Philip Shepard)
All of the myths and fairy tales of the world warn of the tyrant within us, that pits the self against the self, and traps us in the male element of consciousness, affirming that each of us must disenchant ourselves.
Brenda Feist continues her investigations of metaphor. She examines the base of our knowledge, through the known and the felt self which begins in childhood and continues throughout our lifetimes. Her conceptual interest is in the denigration of the female self and the felt self that has a base in an intuitive base of knowledge. Her use of the blackboard and the theatre sets underpin her questions and concerns of the societal mapping of the individual.
The works in this exhibition are the result of the artist’s ongoing cultural production since 2012.
Artist Statement:
A wall of description stands between us and our experience. But a "self closed to any world beyond description loses its ability to transform. It lives by duplicates. Static knowledge keeps it asleep, within the wall of 'me', like a framed picture or specimen in a jar." (Philip Shepard)
All of the myths and fairy tales of the world warn of the tyrant within us, that pits the self against the self, and traps us in the male element of consciousness, affirming that each of us must disenchant ourselves.