Two video art works by New York based, Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad will feature in the multi-site group exhibition Preternatural. Senstad has been exhibiting her work internationally for over twenty years, but this will be the first time her work has been shown in Canada.
Curator Celina Jeffery, Associate Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Ottawa, says that Preternatural “is an exhibition of contemporary art which explores the boundaries and edges of nature – the poetic spaces where the natural and unnatural collide.” Senstad’s work is included in the exhibition along with Ottawa/Hull based artists Adrian Göllner, Marie-Jeanne Musiol, and Andrew Wright and Mariele Neudecker (UK/Germany), Sarah Walko (USA), Avantika Bawa (India/USA) and Shin Il Kim (Korea/USA).
Senstad’s video The Sugarcane Labyrinth will be on display at the Canadian Museum of Nature from 9 December 2011 to 12 February 2012. Senstad’s video documents the construction and growth of a labyrinth on a farm in Theriot, Louisiana, USA. It shows the artist using local farming strategies in an act of sustainability, recovery and rejuvenation of this vulnerable coastline. A still from The Sugarcane Labyrinth will also appear as the cover image for the exhibition catalogue, published by punctum.
A second video work by Senstad The Kinesthesia of Saint Brigid will be on display at St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts from 29 January to 17 February 2012. The work has been adapted to overlay St Brigid’s organ, and bring it to life with morphing colors and four channel surround sound composed by JG Thirlwell.
Artist bio: Anne Katrine Senstad has exhibited widely internationally at Zendai Moma in Shanghai, Galleri JMS in Oslo, Stiftelsen 3,14 in Bergen, Norway, HCP in Houston, Gary Snyder Gallery and Bjørn Ressle Gallery New York, MOMA Ukraine in Kiev, The Eva Peron Museum in Buenos Aires and with KK Projects in New Orleans during Prospect 1. She was recently awarded a public commission by OAC Percent for Art Program in Ohio and the internationally renowned architectural firm Snøhetta, who are responsible for the Ground Zero memorial, NY and the Oslo Opera House. Her work is represented in private, corporate and museum collections.
Canadian Museum of Nature: 240 McLeod Street Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Open: Tuesday to Sunday: 9 am – 5 pm, Thursdays: 9 am – 8 pm. Admission: Adult $10, Student $8, Senior $8, Child $6. For more info see: http://nature.ca/en/home
St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts: 302 St. Patrick St., Ottawa, Ontario. Open: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 1 pm - 8 pm. Admission: Free. For more info see: http://saintbrigidscentre.com/