Janet Cardiff - ‘Newspaper Collage Poem Paintings’
Canadian artist Janet Cardiff lives and works in British Columbia, Canada with her partner George Bures Miller. The artists are internationally recognized for their immersive multimedia sound installations and their audio/video walks. They have created recent video walks at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2019), and for the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh (2019). Over the last few years, Janet and George have shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Oude Kerk, Amsterdam; 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014); the Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2013); and Documents 13, Kassel (2012). In 2020 they were awarded the Wilhelm Lehmbruck prize for sculpture and in 2011 they received Germany’s Käthe Kollwitz Prize. In 2001, Cardiff and Miller represented Canada at the 49th Venice Biennale, for which they received the Premio Speciale and the Benesse Prize.
Each piece from the limited run of 50 is 4” x 6” original, signed, unframed watercolour painting on archival paper with poems collaged from recent New York Times front pages.
