Annie Briard | Wanderings | 2013
Standing isolated in a forest full of towering trees with tiny agile creatures scurrying between your feet, suddenly you happen upon another face. Wanderings is an exploration of the embodiment of perception, reality, time and place.
Focusing on our environmental relationships, Annie Briard produces open-ended fables within fantastical universes as personal experiences for the viewer. Her works are created through diverse media but focus on utilizing the moving image as a means to blur the distinction between reality and perception.
Wanderings marks Briard's first solo exhibition of work in Vancouver. Featured within the exhibition is her interactive stop-motion animation, The Woods (2012), a work that affords you the chance to speak with it only as much as it speaks back at you. In ‘choose your own adventure’ style, viewers communicate with the main character Cecilia, through text messages and movement, prompting different surrealist inspired fable-like narrative moments and actions. Through its playfulness and unique aesthetic, the work questions the limits between dream and reality, human made worlds and nature, and structures of communication and domination. The Woods will subsequently be touring across Canada at Centre 3 (Hamilton), Joyce Yahouda Gallery (Montreal), and VIVO Media Arts Centre (Vancouver).
View interaction documentation: http://vimeo.com/51083771
Annie Briard has exhibited across Canada and internationally, at Articule, Studio XX, Joyce Yahouda Gallery, HTMlles media arts biennale and the Art Souterrain Festival in Montreal; The Rooms Gallery (St John's) the NFB mediatheque (Toronto), the White Rabbit Arts Festival, (Halifax), G++ Gallery (Victoria), the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing, China), eMerge Media Space (Townsville, Australia) and the Swiss Architecture Museum (Basel, Switzerland), amongst others. Her work was featured in a two year, 10-city tour of China for the Canadian Cameras at Work showcase in 2009-2011. In 2011, Joyce Yahouda Gallery presented “The Space in Between”, a solo show of her interdisciplinary work. In 2012, Briard undertook an artist residency at the Banff Centre and represented Canada at World Event Young Artists symposium in Nottingham, England in fall 2012.
http://vandocument.com/2013/08/annie-briard-wanderings-black-and-yellow/
Focusing on our environmental relationships, Annie Briard produces open-ended fables within fantastical universes as personal experiences for the viewer. Her works are created through diverse media but focus on utilizing the moving image as a means to blur the distinction between reality and perception.
Wanderings marks Briard's first solo exhibition of work in Vancouver. Featured within the exhibition is her interactive stop-motion animation, The Woods (2012), a work that affords you the chance to speak with it only as much as it speaks back at you. In ‘choose your own adventure’ style, viewers communicate with the main character Cecilia, through text messages and movement, prompting different surrealist inspired fable-like narrative moments and actions. Through its playfulness and unique aesthetic, the work questions the limits between dream and reality, human made worlds and nature, and structures of communication and domination. The Woods will subsequently be touring across Canada at Centre 3 (Hamilton), Joyce Yahouda Gallery (Montreal), and VIVO Media Arts Centre (Vancouver).
View interaction documentation: http://vimeo.com/51083771
Annie Briard has exhibited across Canada and internationally, at Articule, Studio XX, Joyce Yahouda Gallery, HTMlles media arts biennale and the Art Souterrain Festival in Montreal; The Rooms Gallery (St John's) the NFB mediatheque (Toronto), the White Rabbit Arts Festival, (Halifax), G++ Gallery (Victoria), the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing, China), eMerge Media Space (Townsville, Australia) and the Swiss Architecture Museum (Basel, Switzerland), amongst others. Her work was featured in a two year, 10-city tour of China for the Canadian Cameras at Work showcase in 2009-2011. In 2011, Joyce Yahouda Gallery presented “The Space in Between”, a solo show of her interdisciplinary work. In 2012, Briard undertook an artist residency at the Banff Centre and represented Canada at World Event Young Artists symposium in Nottingham, England in fall 2012.
http://vandocument.com/2013/08/annie-briard-wanderings-black-and-yellow/