Art Gallery Of Ontario
8. To Fix the Image In Memory I-XI
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:01:50
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Nancy Lim: What you're looking at here is To Fix the Image in Memory. You can see that there are 22 stones. 11 of them are found, and 11 of them are bronze casts that she painted. Vija Celmins: Usually, when people look at this piece, they have no idea what they're looking at. Some people thought that I had found two stones that look exactly the same. And they ask me where I found those. So there's an element, I think, of inviting you to look. And a sort of an element of surprise and maybe a chuckle. Tony Berlant: Well, I think that the rocks she makes feel more inhabited than the rocks that are a natural object. And even if I couldn't quickly tell you which one is which, it calls to mind that this is a creation. Vija Celmins: For me, as the artist, the making is the meaning. It was a meditation on really how much I could see. And sort of a meditation of looking at nature. This piece took about four to five years. Of course, I didn't work on it all the time. I never work all the time. I work, I stop, I w