Alison Judd – Tierra

 

Judd explores how human relationships are interwoven with our relationships in the natural world. She is interested in what is termed ‘empty space’ within urban landscapes. Judd often assumes a scientific role in her research. In conducting her fieldwork, she accumulates factual information, and simultaneously establishes connections and relationships, visual and linguistic metaphors.

Her rubbings of the colonial tile floors at arcades and at the Art Centre in Cienfuegos, and with the participation of city workers and artists at Cuba’s only Spanish-style cemetery, offer trace elements of what lies under the city’s surface.

N.B. The critical observation by a Grade 6 student from a neighbouring school ponders the fact that even though the artist may be producing an exact likeness of the surface, the resulting image does not necessarily look the same as the original.

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Funded in part by OAC (Visual Arts Projects, International Touring and Exhibition Assistance Grants), Canada Council (Visiting Foreign Artists and Visual Arts Travel Grants)

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