Rendered Realities: Birds (in my head)
Madi Piller
Opening Reception: Friday,November 1, 2024| 6-9pm | Free-To-Attend
Friday, Novemberr 1, 2024 – Sunday, December 15, 2024
Presented in Black Box & Curated by Eugenio Salas
About the Exhibition
Birds (In My Head) is a work created during the time of COVID-19 isolation incorporating sound collaboration with experimental musician and composer Stefan Voglsinger from Vienna via the internet. The concept started with the natural use of plants and film material combined to create images unconventionally. No camera was used in the process.
The resulting work initially suggests abstract transformation of the reality of nature which arises from the mixed alchemy of film+sun+plant structure. A further digital manipulation of the film material was done by DIY transfer. It was then digitally painted to add a distinguishable colored texture which added an alternative facet to the work.
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The intricate shapes played to a new relationship in the filmmaker’s psyche. As Madi explains it, the shapes are an abstract representation of energy being drawn out of her body as seen through her closed eyes as she falls asleep, akin to a spiritual death each night.
About the Artist
Madi Piller is a filmmaker, animator, programmer, and independent curator currently living and working in Toronto, Canada. Her abstract, nonrepresentational and poetic images are drawn from analogue film explorations in Super 8, 16mm and 35mm, as well as digital tools. The resulting imagery is strongly influenced by diverse animation techniques and multiple hybrid styles of production.
Madi’s films have been screened at film festivals, alternative spaces, and contemporary art venues nationally and internationally. Such as TIFF Wavelengths,Toronto, Bienal de La Imagen Movimiento, Argentina, S8 A Coruña, Spain, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in UK. Her work has been produced with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council and the Chalmers Arts Fellowship. International residencies include Museum Quartier21, Vienna Austria, the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Yukon, NWT, Symposion Lindabrunn, Lindabrunn, Austria.
She is also the artistic director at PIX FILM Collective in Toronto, an arts space supporting artists in multidisciplinary creations and exhibitions. www.pixfilmcollective.com
