- Michaele
- Jordana
- Berman
- April 8 - 25
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- Cyborg
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The Human Condition
Upcoming Exhibitions
Papier 10
Montreal Paper Art Fair
April 16 - Apr
18, 2010
NeoPriest Montreal
Traveling to Art Mur
April 15-18
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Michaele Jordana Berman,
a multiplatform artist, is a name that many know,
perhaps from different contexts, for she has excelled in
more than one discipline to memorable effect. You may
remember her as the sylph-like actress in Stefan Czernecki’s
film Green Veridian Green. Then she bowled the
Toronto art scene over with her exhibition Oceans of
Blood at the Isaacs Gallery in 1976. Her large-scale
airbrushed photorealist paintings related to her stay in the
Arctic,
where she drifted on the ice floes with the Inuit and the
narwhal. The National Gallery purchased her monumental
painting from this period, I Cry Tears of Blood.. As
the lyricist /singer Michaele Jordana in the new wave/punk
band The Poles with Doug Pringle (originator of the
“electronica” group, Syrinx) her fragile physicality,
ethereal
looks and riveting performance of songs such as CN Tower
are graven into the musical archives of
Toronto.
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In Berman’s words “I juxtapose and reassemble fragments
of my photographic work, transposing images from their
original context, to produce composite frames that become
frozen moments in time suggesting a larger narrative.
Referencing Frontier, one of her Cyborg series
in which a young woman is seen in the Canadian Arctic
defiantly clutching a Canadian flag, Berman says, ”As
countries engage in international subterfuge it will be
impossible to determine who is a real flesh and blood human
warrior, manning the gates of each country’s disputed
territories, and who is a cyborg provided with enough
artificial intelligence within its source code to have the
capacity to feel, to learn, and to distinguish right from
wrong.”
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CYBORG,
The Human Condition,
like Michaele Jordana Berman’s previous acts of self
re-invention, is as memorable as it is absolutely
contemporary.
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