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Janieta Eyre
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Janieta
Eyre lives and works in Toronto. Since the mid-1990s,
she has been exploring the idea of duality and its disquieting
aspects by metamorphosing herself in her photographs.
Originally fascinated with death, the occult, and psychic
phenomena, she then turned to maternity and birth. In
addition to her carefully staged photographs, Eyre recently
produced a video, Natural History Museum, in
which a man attends his own birth. Her photographs are
popular in America and Europe and have been featured in
several solo exhibitions, including New Works
at the Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver, in 2004; Staging
at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri,
in 2002; and Lady Lazarus at Francesco Girondini
Arte Contemporanea in Verona, Italy, in 2000. Her works
were also presented at the Kwanju Biennale in South Korea,
in 2000; the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography,
in Ottawa, and Dazibao, in Montreal, in 2003; as part
of the exhibition Métamorphose et clonage
at the Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal,
in 2001; and in Mois de la Photo à Montréal,
in 1997. |
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Janieta Eyre, Mass 1 and Mass 2 (diptych),
2004, Cibachrome print, 101,6 x 76,2 cm each. Courtesy Diane
Farris Gallery and the artist. |
Janieta Eyre, What I Haven’t
Told You (triptych), 2003, Cibachrome print, 30,5 x 25,4
cm each. Courtesy Christopher Cutts Gallery and the artist.
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