by Elisa Rathje
still image from untitled (left side/right side) © Elisa Rathje
I am proud to introduce my daughter Elisa, a 1998 graduate of the Emily Carr Institute (of Art, Design and Media) who works with computer-generated images and digital video. One of her video works is showing at The Western Front artist-run centre in an exhibition called:
Untitled (Conversation Loops)
Miguel da Conceicao, Jacob Gleeson, Donato Mancini, Elisa Rathje
Excerpts from the exhibition statement:
Untitled (Conversation Loops) features the work of four Vancouver-based artists working with tautologies, multiples and closed loops of language and dialogue in four very different works.
In her 2-channel video work left side/right side, Rathje continues her interest in mirrors, multiples, and the body in relation to the gaze. Using two Point-of-View shots, the video depicts an intimate moment of waking up next to a partner or lover. However, in Rathje’s work, both images are of the artist herself, creating a confusing twinning of the intimate other.
Please read the whole statement about the other artists’ work as well.
That’s at the The Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver until December 18, 2004
Some of Elisa’s past projects include street banners for the cities of Vancouver and North Vancouver
December 7, 2004 in Art Exhibitions, Other artists by Marja-Leena
The mother should be very proud!
Mom should be very proud!
And perhaps she is….
Lovely site Marja-Leena. I have been writing a blog about my artwork and associated happenings for most of this year and it is wonderful to find someone else doing the same. After reading your October entry when you discussed the reason for writing a blog I felt that it would be appropriate to introduce myself! I am a printmaker in Hobart, Tasmania (Australia) and I have just come through the university system. I also have a duaghter who is embarking on her path, though she has only just finished her first uni year. Anyway, most enjoyable site – I know the effort that goes into keeping up the posts!
Linden
Thanks Tom, mom IS proud (of all my creative daughters)!
Linden, thank you and welcome! I’m very excited to meet another printmaker who blogs, for the first time in my ten months of blogging. Your site is lovely too and I look forward to reading all of it with time, and to sharing many ideas.
Congrats! So wonderful. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Is that your daughter in the photo? She’s very beautiful. If she ever streams it online you should let us know, it sounds really interesting.
Thanks Amy!
Yes, Elise, it’s my daughter in the photo. I’ll ask her to let me know when it’s online, thanks for the interest.
How nice to meet your daughter, Marja-Leena! She is lovely and it sounds like she’s well on her way to following your footsteps in an art career. You must be proud of her, and rightly so.
Great that you have passed on the gene. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at your family dinner table with all the art reportage that must go on. Or maybe you talk about the price of fish?
Hehe…that fly on the wall would hear us talking about a lot of different stuff, sometimes art (especially our own work), about the day’s news and politics (especially that of our neighbours), even about fish (nasty farmed ones harming our wild salmon), sometimes just boring family stuff (like who’s turn is it to empty the dishwasher) – sound like a normal family?
Marja-Leena,
I am just catching up and what a pleasant surprise to see your daughter’s art! What an inspiring family you are. Thank you for a lovely post.