‘Kelly Richardson’, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Kelly Richardson
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
May 6 to June 28, 2009
Beverley Webster Rolph Hall (lower level)
Kelly Richardson’s Exiles of the Shattered Star, recently acquired by the Musée, will be screened as a solo presentation. Exiles of the Shattered Star is a video lasting almost 30 minutes shown as an unending loop. In June 2006, Richardson filmed a sunrise in the Lake District, England, a region famous for the staggering beauty of its landscape. Into this fixed-sequence, almost unreal, footage the artist inserted a rain of fireballs, composing a surrealist picture that demonstrates her love of the eerie. The title, Exiles of the Shattered Star, suggests a distant catastrophe, the explosion of a star whose fragments have come to “find exile” in this corner of paradise. Kelly Richardson was born in Burlington, Ontario, in 1972. Since 2003, she has lived and worked in Gateshead, England.