Stained
Visual Arts Residency
Program, P.2144
- Identifier
- P.2144
- Category
- Visual Arts
- Date
- March 4 – April 25, 2011
- Description
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Artist in residence Shelley Miller (Montreal) will create a ‘confecious’ mural during her residency at Open Space. Miller will be working at Open Space from March 4 to March 25 creating a new work that will be installed in downtown Victoria. The mural will mimic Portuguese colonial tiles but will be constructed entirely of sugar.
A public unveiling of the installed mural will take place on March 26. The mural will remain in place until it disintegrates.
Miller’s ephemeral installations are like history itself, eroding and dissolving over time, subject to the distortions of told and retold stories, lore and myth. The mural will be a trompe l’oeil resembling traditional azulejo tile murals. Azulejo is a form of Portuguese or Spanish painted, tin-glazed, ceramic tile work that has been produced without interruption for five centuries. Unlike traditional tile work, Shelley Miller’s installation will fade in the sun and slowly disintegrate.