Angela Grauerholz

In the work, Reading Room for the Working Artist (2003-2004), Angela Grauerholz assembled in twelve artist’s books a collection of visual and textual references. She presented the books along with a film collage, photographs, and furniture, in an installation that she modelled after Rodchenko’s 1925 Reading Room of the USSR Workers’ Club. Drawn from her personal archive and organized under such diverse themes as Untitled (Flâneuse), Untitled (Circular), and Untitled (Courting Death), the books, and the work as a whole, addressed the associative array of influences that can be brought to bear on contemporary art in general, and on Grauerholz’s own work, in particular.  Reflecting on the thematic considerations of this installation, the exhibition will highlight Grauerholz’s photographic career over the past twenty years, including recent work. Developed around her major “iconic” photographs, the selection will explore both her pictorial and conceptual aspirations. Issues intrinsic to the photographic medium such as time and memory will be addressed along with notions related to the archive, representation, and imagination.

Organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Presented By Pratt & Whitney Canada.