Maeve Hanna explores the difficulty and potential threat of deterioration associated when exhibiting fragile seminal video works.
Maeve Hanna
Maeve Hanna is a writer based in Treaty 7 Territory (Calgary, AB). She is akimbo.ca’s Calgary Correspondent and has previously written for Border Crossing, C Magazine, Canadian Art, esse arts + opinions, Frieze, Galleries West, Los Angeles Review of Books and Sculpture Magazine.
Hands rubbed in ash
Ash Wednesday, thumb to the sky
“We wed before Ash Wednesday, and I still didn’t know him.”
Figures falling apart into pixelated existence.
Broken down.
Disintegrated.
Ed Spence and Dana Claxton embrace this technological way of digesting or reading, absorbing or even understanding the information held within images. Divided from their original context, in a way, images reverted to analog form illustrate more of a division than a unification of knowledge.