Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall

Tan, Fiona and Bruce Grenville et al.

ISBN 10: 1895442796 / ISBN 13: 9781895442793

Published by Vancouver Art Gallery, 2010

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Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 128 pages, as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall
• Publisher: Vancouver Art Gallery
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1895442796
• ISBN 13: 9781895442793
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Video Art

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Synopsis

Exhibition publication. Pictorial hardcover with essays by Bruce Grenville, Madeleine Schuppli, Irit Rogoff, Michael Newman, Okwui Enwezor

For her two-screen installation, Rise and Fall, Tan filmed in Niagara Falls, Belgium and the Netherlands, constructing a narrative of isolation, loss and dislocation by using water as an evocative metaphor for time and for memories of a woman’s life. Tan intersperses images of an older and younger woman – depicting a story of two lives while suggesting they may be the same person – with images of moving bodies of water. The viewer is shown glimpse of intimate moments – bathing, caresses of a lover, routine make-up application – that both unite and divide these two iterations of a woman separated by time. Pointing to the ephemeral nature of human existence, Rise and Fall offers a meditation on the reflective gaze and examines how memories influence how we live in the present. The imposing scale of the installation confronts the viewer with a visceral, bodily experience and captures the tension between the past and the future, between memory and forgetting. Commissioned by the Vancouver Art Gallery.