Installation at Daniel Arts Center Gallery, Great Barrington, MA (2017).
Playing between found and original film, photography, and text, DEWATERED/REMEDIAL PROJECTS address the volatile and unwavering visual presence of Niagara Falls. The installation utilizes archives, memory, and historical accounts across multiple media to coax out the contestations, contradictions, and reiterations of Niagara as a geographic formation and body of water, a constructed monument, a contentious colonial border, and an imagined frontier space.
Projection, video monitors, salt prints, cyanotypes, and text.
Working with archival home videos and vacation reels, Deluge considers how Niagara Falls is situated between national monuments and family portraits and turned into a site of fantastical projection. Personal memory and family history is cast upon and floods the surface of the Falls as the waters carry away particulars, eroding memorial landscapes.
Video, 5:15 (excerpt 2:52).
