I Will Eat Your Heart Out
Tania Sures (Curator)
Glynis Humphrey
Mikiki/Mike Hickey
Leah Mullins
Ray Peterson
Bread Bed
Karen Spencer
Dates Showing: July 26th - August 20th, 2003
Curator Tania Sures brings together new work by artists Glynis Humphrey, Mikiki/Mike Hickey, Leah Mullins and Ray Peterson. I will eat your heart out, addresses issues related to the personal politics of food of the artist, gender politics, ideologies of service and consumption, and the body as a symbol for social and cultural order. The artists presented in the exhibition incorporate a variety of media such as video, installation and mechanics, using food to explore issues around the body, identity and desire. "The use of food/confectionery in the gallery provides a space for dialogue - a discursive space - between the ideas, the artist's work and the greater art community". Sures plans to produce a limited edition catalog in the form of paper place-mats to reflect the dynamics of the exhibition in each different gallery space.
In conjunction with this curated exhibition, Karen Spencer's performative installation, Bread Bed will occupy the Rogue Gallery. Everyday of her one week performance Spencer will fill the space with layers of store-bought enriched white bread, creating a bed where she will lay for a period of three hours, then walking away to leave the indent of her sleeping body and the "traces of her daily dwellings". Through her performative work, Spencer explores the concept that bread is symbolic to the body as a social construct. Specifically, white bread embodies meanings related to its social function as an indicator of economic class. In Bread-Bed this meaning is renegotiated as bread is "removed from circulation, transformed and reinserted within a different social framework".
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