There is no time without movement or change and it is in the perceiving of movement that we perceive time. The true horizon is a theoretical line that can only be observed when it lies on a sea. The part of the sea closest to the horizon is called the offing, what poetry is insinuated in the offing? Everything exists in its own true time. A rock lives in one time, a tree, a dog and a person, all over lapping times. The audio in this work is a shepherd tone, an effect that gives the impression of a continually ascending or descending shift in pitch; like a Möbius strip, whose beginning or end point is unknown and relative to perspective; it acts like a mirage. Attack decay sustain and release is the poetry in the offing.
This work was made on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Danielle Arnaud gallery. Over the past 25 years Danielle Arnaud and Nick Heaf have had a remarkable impact on my capacity to make and disseminate my work and I am very grateful for their support.
A work by Paulette Phillips
Sound Track Michelle Irving
Special thanks to the Doris McCarthy Artist in Residency, 2020
© Paulette Phillips
Bio
Paulette Phillips’ work deals with the relationship between viewer and subject, focusing on witnessing, looking and reflection. Consistent in her work is an interest in the way psychological content is embedded in the physical world. Often drawn to abject abandoned places, Phillips documents these spaces through a materialist lens. Feminism, psychology and forensics provide strategies for sifting through these haunted sites. Her recently completed film The Quoddy Fold, was exhibited at The 2019 Bonavista Biennale, Nfld., DOKFest, Kassel, Germany.
Over the years she has screened and exhibited her work at Berlin Film Fesitivals’ Forum Expanded, Berlinale; the Tate Modern; the Centre de Pompidou; Parc de la Villette. Paris; Musee d’art Contemporain and the National Gallery of Canada; Luminato Festival; Nuit Blanche, Toronto; Ludwig Museum. Budapest; Heidelberger Kunstverein; and Kunsthaus Graz.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards, most recently as a 2019 Finalist, Ontario Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Her work is in a number of public collections including the National Gallery Canada, Oakville Galleries, the Museum of Modern of Modern Art and Frac, Haute-Normandie, France, and in corporate and private collections including Gluskin Sheff + Associates and BMO Bank of Montreal.
She lives in Toronto and West Quoddy, Nova Scotia and teaches time-based and contemporary art practices at OCAD University. Her work is represented through Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London and CFMDC, Toronto.
