Galerie McClure, Westmount, QC - 2004



CULEBRA is a one-channel digital video projection that aligns itself with the muralist sense of narrative in that it references landscape (that of a woman’s tattooed body) and the context of pulling memory and history out of the skin. This video has many references to painting in its visual abstraction and movement of the camera scanning the body as if with a paintbrush. The self-portraits demonstrate a new reconsideration of ideas of traditional self-portraiture in relation to media culture.

The above image is displayed in a custom-made aluminum lightbox containing a back-lit digital colour print of a self-portrait documented in Mexico City entitled: 'clenched fists'.

A large frame table light box embedded with a self-portrait image from the same series was camouflaged into table hidden amongst the mexican foliage and was triggered to turn on by an infra-red sensor as the viewer entered a large gallery space from behind a black partitioning. The installation then presented in a continuos loop, the digital video projection, 'culebra'.