Erin Shirreff, Four-Color Café Terrace (Caro, –––––, Moorhouse, Matisse), 2019
Erin Shirreff: Remainders
The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
January 16, 2021 – January 2, 2022
The Clark Art Institue is pleased to present Remainders, a solo exhibition of work by Erin Shirreff. This yearlong exhibition in public spaces around the Clark examines Shirreff’s practice—between analog and digital media, two and three dimensions, and still and moving images—and its fascination with the mythmaking behind art history. Through photographic manipulations of sculptures found in books, and ones of her own making, Shirreff asks what is left of the original experience of an artwork once it has entered the historical record, and what traces of an artist’s labor might still be legible after the fact. The exhibition includes photographs on paper and aluminum that have been creased and cut, to take on sculptural dimensions, as well as the artist’s video work. Shirreff’s painstaking process encourages slow looking, forensic attention to detail, and an appreciation that things may not be quite as they appear.
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