Lot 14
Vera Frenkel
Lot 14 Details
Vera Frenkel
OF MEMORY AND DISPLACEMENT VERA FRENKEL: COLLECTED WORKS, 2005
DVD & CD-ROM collection, 12 of 15, bound as a video collection
7.5 x 5.3 x .5 in — 19.1 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
Estimate $525-$700
Sold For:
$350
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Provenance:
Courtesy of the artist
Note:
Vera Frenkel is one of Canada's most renowned multidisciplinary artists, respected both locally and internationally. Her installations, videotapes, performances, and new media projects address the forces at work in human migration, the learning and unlearning of cultural memory, and the ever-increasing bureaucratization of experience. From the early ground-breaking teleconferencing work String Games: Improvisations for Inter-City Video (Montreal-Toronto, 1974) to her documenta IX multi-channel project on migration and displacement "... from the Transit Bar" (1992), and Body Missing, her exploration of art theft in the Third Reich, Frenkel's work challenges received ideas and the boundaries of her chosen media. It has been acknowledged by numerous honours including the TFVA Founders’ Award, the Governor General's Award for Visual & Media Art, the Canada Council Bell Canada Award for Video Art, and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize.