InstagramPaulette Phillips |
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| The Directed Lie 2009 (ongoing) Installation view VOLTA NY 2018 Courtesy David Willems Photography |
| Biography |
| Paulette Phillips is an artist based in Toronto. Her 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. Over the past thirty years she has worked in visual art, film and theatre and for the past 15 years has primarily focused on sculpture and film installation showing her work primarily in the UK, France and Germany. 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 and in corporate and private collections including Gluskin Sheff + Associates and BMO Bank of Montreal. Her work is represented by Danielle Arnaud, London. Paulette teaches time-based and contemporary art practices at OCAD University. |
| Curriculum vitae |
| Press |
| Exhibitions at the gallery: VOLTA NY 2018, Paulette Phillips 2013, Shaky Legs 2011 |
| Artist's Website |
| SELECTED WORKS *click thumbnails to view larger images |
| The Quoddy Fold film 2019 duration 00:56:11 |
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| Snail detail from The Quoddy Fold film 2019 duration 00:56:11 |
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| Photoverso detail from The Quoddy Fold film 2019 duration 00:56:11 |
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| Winter detail from The Quoddy Fold film 2019 duration 00:56:11 |
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| Figurine detail from The Quoddy Fold film 2019 duration 00:56:11 |
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| The Directed Lie, video installation |
| 2012 330 portraits of artists, curators and collectors, 23-hour video with sound, 7 books (8 cities), desk, computer, speakers |
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| The Directed Lie, video installation |
| 2012 330 portraits of artists, curators and collectors, 23-hour video with sound, 7 books (8 cities), desk, computer, speakers |
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| Have you ever used your attractiveness to get something that you wanted? The Heart, S. C-G, PARIS |
| 2012 powder-coated waterjet-cut aluminum 79 x 91.5 cm |
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| Have you ever cheated on your partner? Energy, C.R. TORONTO |
| 2012 powder-coated waterjet-cut aluminum 122 x 91.5 cm |
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| Cross talk |
| 2004 film still |
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| Monster Tree |
| 2006, 16mm transferred to DVD, flat screen monitor, 6min loop |
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| Homewrecker #1, #2 |
| 2005, video installation |
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| Smut |
| 2004, duratrans, video and sound |
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| Crosstalk |
| 2004, 35mm transferred to DVD, projection with sound, 7min loop |
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| The Secret Life of Criminals |
| A series of film and video installations |
| These installations are short gestural narratives based on my observations of human behaviour. These mini dramas are twisted metaphors inspired by occurrences, interactions or acts of folly which play out daily on any bus, street corner, car, restaurant, park, ravines... These witnessed events signal distress, melt down, an illness as metaphor to larger issues confounding our existence. I am interested in how people undo themselves and seemingly participate in their own misfortune. I see this behavioral paradox - of short circuiting one’s best interests - as the root of my continuing interest and engagement with narrative form. |
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| The Secret Life of Criminals, single channel video |
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| The Floating House 2002, 16 mm film with sound, presented as a projection on DVD |
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| Ecstasy 2001, two channel video and sound |
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| "It's about how people judge appearance" 2001, video and sound |