WHITE-OUT: BETWEEN TELLING AND LISTENING
Central Gallery, Charo Neville, 2012, WHITE-OUT: Between Telling and Listening, Annette Hurtig Frank Luca Central Gallery, Charo Neville, 2012, WHITE-OUT: Between Telling and Listening, Annette Hurtig Frank Luca

WHITE-OUT: BETWEEN TELLING AND LISTENING

Esther Shalev-Gerz

Central Gallery
March 24 to June 16, 2012

Curated by Charo Neville, Annette Hurtig

This exhibition brings together two key works by Esther Shalev-Gerz in the first solo exhibition of her work to be organized in Canada. Born in Lithuania, raised in Israel and a resident of Paris since 1984, Esther Shalev-Gerz is internationally recognized for her investigations into the nature of democracy, citizenship, cultural memory and spatial politics. Additionally, her work persistently challenges traditional notions and practices of portraiture; it considers the portrait’s possibilities within contemporary discourses and the politics of representation.

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