Event Info
Twitching Hour: Exhibition by Amelia Beauregard & Sarah Massey
Join us for the Blanshard Open House on Oct 5th + Gallery Hours beyond!
Thursdays: 5-8PM
Saturdays: 1-4PM
By Donation
Opening: Saturday 5th October 2024
2-8PM. For opening only, use 780 Blanshard Entrance.
Event Description
Join us at the OCTOBER 5TH OPEN HOUSE (780 BLANSHARD), where TWITCHING HOUR will be opening in the MoCL Gallery, featuring artists Amelia Beauregard & Sarah Massey!
Message from the artists: “Enter our bedroom at Twitching Hour, where the night’s memory is lacerated with a tender suspension of the self within the self. Incorporating dual projectors and an old gaming CRT TV, we invite you to bathe your senses in a hypnotic dream state and align every past version of yourself in a digitally-scrying seance. Whether you are afraid of the dark or not, our three-way video installation and full-room sculpture will have your mind walking a tightrope between lucidity and disorientation. When your body takes the long way back to the surface, can you feel the weight of your waking?”
About Amelia:
Creation for me is a messy, compulsive, and confusing process of being reborn again and again. Often driven by an urge to understand the raw, emotional potency of the unconscious mind, I find myself habitually picking at the scabs of the past. Dreams, memories, and their fleeting qualities bleed into all areas of my practice, and I am often leaving my projects feeling profoundly disoriented and soaked in honest vulnerability. Though I have my roots in the world as a painter, I now work primarily in video. Through complex soundscapes and layered footage, I aim to create an immersive alternate reality that hangs somewhere between my world and yours. The materiality of my work is ever-expanding outwards as I slowly let my eyes close and my heart open. The truth is this: I don’t really know what I’m doing or why. I am just the child I’ve always been, earnestly dipping my trembling fingers into the deep well of the unknown; letting the tears fall, letting the paint run, letting the light in.
About Sarah:
The roots of my practice are grounded in the concept of inner sanctuary. I create visual love letters to the intricate ways we give and seek meaning, referencing a cyclical nature of detachment and reattachment to the world. I know I’m following the right instinct when a piece feels like I’m either opening or suturing a wound. Although I specialize in oil painting, my practice has grown multidisciplinary to incorporate digital media and video art installation. Within my practice, I extricate a codification of symbols from a very dense body of sketches, journal entries, photos, and poetry. My video work is a composite of layered footage, balancing the distribution and organization of keyed-out color values and visual noise.
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Opening: OCTOBER 5TH, 2-8PM
780 BLANSHARD ENTRANCE.
Gallery hours: Thursdays 5-8pm, Saturdays 1-4pm
750 FAIRFIELD ENTRANCE.
Until October 26th
Cost: Free/By donation.
Wheelchair accessible through East Entrance.
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We hope to see you all there!!!
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Venue
The Ministry of Casual Living (MoCL) is a registered non-pro...
750 Fairfield Rd. Victoria BC
Open / Operational
Sat. October 5th 2024 - Sat. October 26th 2024
The Ministry of Casual Living Victoria BC
In-Person Event
