Tickling Salmon

• Date: Friday, November 18 2011
• Show: Endless Renovation
• Artist: Corin Sworn
• Medium: Photography
• Location: Contemporary Art Gallery
• Address: 555 Nelson St, Vancouver

Endless Renovation begins with a happenstance finding. Several blocks away from her home in Glasgow in a back alley Corin Sworn discovered a box of discarded slides. The odd collection of images is the bases for a poetic narrative built from found texts and the artist’s speculations on the imagesand the photographer. Most shots are of solitary and unique clocks that tell time through a vertical and horizontal crisscross. The photographer it seems is an ingenious clock-maker. This narrated slide show, constituting two projectors, the recorded narration and the transcript, is assembled into a minimal installation with glass shelving and tailored curtains. The rooms composition imposes a subtle interference, making it difficult to view both images at once and correspond the numbered transcript with each photograph. The sequence is pertinent to the story, yet it is only conjecture, fabricated by the artist like the objects are made by their documenter.