Le Fresnoy
KELLY RICHARDSON

Exiles of the Shattered Star, 2006


High definition video projection / stereo sound / 29’51’’ / loop.
Courtesy Kelly Richardson, Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto.

 

In this video installation, what at first seems to be an image of a peaceful pastoral landscape is suddenly littered with burning debris that falls from the sky. Contrasting beauty with destruction as well as fantasy and reality, the paradox is enhanced by the soundtrack: birds singing, not at all troubled by this peaceful end of the world.

 

Born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
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