Bruce Eves
Becoming Visible: The Spirit of Stonewall, 1994
Photo, 22.86 cm x 30.48 cm.
New York Public Library collection
The above image is from the group of selected works on the 2018 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts webpage.
I guess one strategy for getting a chance at selection for a Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts is a "message." Well I would think that my America (Americas) theme aided by my Reclaiming Beaut has it all.
No! You also need the pink triangle. Or any "other" label.
“Bruce Eves has a restless mind. His commitment to the rigor of historical research – whether art history, gay history, or his own personal history – has been at the core of his work across his 40-year career. Through performance, curatorial, installation, archival and photo-based projects, he has produced a remarkably prolific body of work that exhibits a logical growth and development without falling into the trap of easy repetition.My beloved lion at the New York Public Library, whom I have photographed so many times, gets ambushed by this year's GG Winner.
That Eves has been able to wrestle with the challenges and traumas he has encountered, and found within them the seeds of art, illustrates his vitality as an artist and his ability to fashion artistic assertions from his own lived experiences. This echoes what philosopher Mary Warnock would insist ‘operates under perpetual tension: the only way to cope with life is to learn what to forget; the only way to feel one has an identity is to remember.’”
- Lily Eng, performance artist (nominator)
You pick.
Kidist Paulos Asrat
Fortitude: Lion by the New York Public Library, 2017
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