photo : John Sellekaers
Miniaturization is... the cipher of history.
— Giorgio Agamben1 1 - Giorgio Agamben, “Infancy and History,” In Playland (London: Verso, 2007), 81.
Montreal artist Vida Simon’s use of miniature scale proposes the precariousness of intimacy as a form of resistance against the giganticism and publicity of our epoch. In her practice she pursues drawing and installation through performance in which the miniature has the role of opening connections with time past. This occurs through the relationship she establishes to time by way of childhood with its themes of toys and play. In her performances we go behind the scenes to encounter transparency, a sense that we are seeing the really real, the truth-which-is-a-story, a story in which we find ourselves as a collectivity. This is the theatrical dimension of Simon’s performance-installations.
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