Artist in Residence Debut Mirrored in Downtown Storefront

January 6, 2023
Metropolis of Victoria Artist in Residence, Kemi Craig, has introduced her artwork to a storefront window in downtown Victoria.
Over the following month, Kemi shall be curating video projections for the storefront of a retail house at 707 Douglas Avenue. At the moment, the home windows function a sequence of video loops from a reside efficiency introduced by Kemi for Dance Victoria’s Dance Days in 2022 entitled the house between.
The sequence options video loops of shut–up physique components in movement. By breaking the expectation and satisfaction of the act of trying and seeing the physique in its entirety, Kemi hopes to create a pause and maybe the thought that we by no means expertise any particular person of their wholeness, that however we will get to know one small a part of them in higher element.
Kemi Craig is a Victoria-based dancer and visible artist and is Victoria’s third Artist in Residence. By way of her lived expertise as a girl of African descent, Kemi’s artwork makes use of dance, analogue and digital visible applied sciences to centre experiences for folks with racialized and gendered our bodies.
For extra data, go to Kemi’s Artist in Residence web page.
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