Progresso, 1998
A photographic and video installation with two video monitors on Queen Anne style tables. They stand approximately 5.5 metres apart on a path made from 100 black and white photographs encased in plexiglass tiles which form an alternating mosaic pattern of black on white and white on black images. The images include 50 photos of crocheted doilies, and 50 photos of hand written word drawings (each photo is 8”x8”). The monitors face each other. In one video the artist repeats a series of Italian feminine adjectives (colour: 44 minutes) and in the other her Italian grandmother Antoinetta Della Penna Di Risio repeats a series of English adjectives (colour: 51 minutes). 

Exhibition installation at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia 1998, photography by Robert Zingone.

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