Sara Angelucci
Selected Works
September 11–November 9, 2002

For this exhibit of large-scale colour prints, Sara Angelucci uses a plastic toy camera as a kind of collaborator, exploiting the inherent manufacturing defects of a cheaply made device to generate a base of images that, in a poetic sense, make visible the limitations of the memory process. Light leaks cause colourful flares on exposed landscape images; recordings of movement through the lens register as excited blurs; the camera’s inability to consistently advance from one frame to the next causes odd overlaps and juxtapositions: all of these factors detail a view of the past concerned with photographically revealing
gaps in memories of place.

Also included in this exhibit, the following video: Snow (5 min, 2000) > Film segments randomly chosen from the last seconds of Super 8 family films. The strange juxtaposition of one narratives forces a closer re-examination of each scenario. The white dots which appear seem to obliterate the last clues of the story; each scene becoming a small gesture of loss. The sound composition sets a melancholic landscape, at times correlating directly with events in the films.

Sara Angelucci is a photo and video artist living in Toronto. She completed her B.A. in Fine Art at the University of Guelph and her M.F.A. at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has exhibited her photography across Canada including exhibitions at Le Mois de la Photo in Montreal, 1997 and solo shows at Ace Art in Winnipeg, the Toronto Photographer’s Workshop and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. Angelucci’s videos have been screened across Canada and included in festivals in Europe and Hong Kong. She is currently the Director of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in Toronto and is represented by the Wynick/Tuck Gallery. Sara Angelucci was born in Hamilton, Ontario.