An Uncomfortable Fascination

This is not a video pool event, but a video event not to be missed! We hope you'll be able to attend...

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THE VIDEO WORKS OF ERICA EYRES:
An Uncomfortable Fascination

Curated By Stacy Abramson
Artist Present

FREE ADMISSION

Friday / July 4 / 7:00 PM
THE WFG'S CINEMATHEQUE,
100 ARTHUR STREET

Her work is dark, eerie and strangely human. She dons costumes to perform in all of her video work creating characters which pushes viewers to the edge. The work of former Winnipeg artist Erica Eyres, who moved to Glasgow in 2002 and received her masters degreee in art in 2004 has been picked up by the Rokeby Gallery in London, England, one of the most trend setting galleries in the UK. She has been developing a name for herself in the European art scene in the past six years. She showed with Bowieart - an exhibition of 16 emerging European artists selected by David Bowie in 2005.

Curator and writer Stacy Abramson said her work is uncomfortable, hilarious, sad and brilliant all at once. We want to laugh, and do, but feel sorry for the characters. We feel guilty about finding all of their misfortune humourous. But this is the reality of human emotions. She is able to shine the harshest light on the dark side of human nature with a strange face of humour. She makes us look at the strange and unsettling reality of these characteristics that we tend to push under the rug. Through each character that she plays in her works, Eyres lets us see that with a critical and brilliant eye. Her total control of the medium of both video and performance are what make her stand-out from so many artists working with the same ideas of humanity."