Free Admission | Sunday, January 9 at 2 pm. A publication will accompany the
exhibition. Image: Dianne Bos. Petit Larouse Peintre Modern. Chromogenic print
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DIANNE BOS READING ROOM
JANUARY 8–FEBRUARY 27, 2011
DIANNE BOS: READING ROOM
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 8 at 2:30 pm Artist will be in attendance
Dianne Bos has been working in photography using pinhole cameras in innovative and unpredictable ways. Her motivation in using long exposures is to capture a passage of time, and memory of a place, rather than the instance of a moment.
Artist Talk: Free Admission | Sunday, January 9 at 2 pm A publication will accompany the exhibition. Image: Dianne Bos. Petit Larouse Peintre Modern. Chromogenic print, 2003
For her solo exhibition “Reading Room” at Cambridge Galleries, Bos has been collecting books, including old titles from Cambridge Libraries, and turning them into pinhole cameras. By carving into the body of the pages, the books become camera objects capable of capturing imagery between their covers. The photographs taken with the book-cameras relate to the original subject of the books used. The exhibition includes a number of installations, video projection documenting individual pages of a book as it is transformed into a camera, and a series of book-cameras as objects along with the images taken with them. In conjunction with the exhibition Dianne Bos will deliver a talk on the history and wonder of the camera obscura using the artworks as examples of photography that is quite literally a drawing with light. Used as a drawing device in the past, this simple technology has had an impact on art since the renaissance and it continues to influence Bos’ photographs and installations.
The artist would like to thank the Alberta Foundation for the Arts for their support of this exhibition. Cambridge Galleries are supported by the membership, the City of Cambridge, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council.
