Monika Grzymala, Distortions 2008, installation shot. Image: catrionajeffries.com

KELLY WOOD AND MONIKA GRZYMALA

At Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, 18 January – 16 February, 2008

This exhibition brings together works by gallery artist Kelly Wood and Hamburg-based artist Monika Grzymala.Kelly Wood will show a new series of ten unique, large, near-monochromatic photographic images that depict the binary code formats of digital recordings of ten songs. Wood has selected recordings of innovative Canadian electronic or avant-garde music, ranging from Hugh Le Caine’s “dripsody”—composed in 1955 from a sound sample of a drip of water falling in a pail—to recordings by Intersystems, the Nihilist Spasm Band, John Oswald and the UJ3RK5.

Kelly Wood, Garbage Bag (No. 5), 2001, C-print. Image: catrionajeffries.com

Based in Hamburg and Berlin, Monika Grzymala will produce an installation entitled Distortion, comprised of approximately seven kilometres of adhesive tape.

Kelly Wood, Howard Shore-Welcome to Videodrome (1982), 2007. Image: catrionajeffries.com

Grzymala’s installation is related to visual interference and pixellation—the random errors and digital distortions which appear accidentally in electronic imagery.For more information, please visit the gallery’s website HERE.