Past Residents
Past Resident2010: Foundation for a Civil Society
Jiri Skala
Jiří Skála is known for his playful and witty conceptualist approach to various social contexts and situations. He often employs participants in gamelike interactions in his work, or institutes subtle interventions creating objects that have only been minimally altered but which are no less effective in altering our own perspectives of the given situation. His recent work has focussed on the written word and inter-personal communication, for example, in his ongoing project Handwriting Exchange Skala, and someone chosen from a completely different social and cultural background, become acquainted through a daily process of learning how to copy each other’s handwriting.
Jiří Skála, born 1976, lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic. He studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, and at the post-graduate program at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. His work has been exhibited widely including the following: Tirana Biennale I, Albania; Palais de Tokyo, France; Prague Biennale, Czech Republic; and the UBS Gallery in New York. He is a co-founder of the Etc. Gallery in Prague, established in 2004, and a member of the PAS group, together with the artist Tomáš Vaněk and curator Vít Havranek. He is listed in the Younger than Jesus Artist Directory compiled by the New Museum in New York, and in November of 2009 was awarded the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for young artists in the Czech Republic by Vaclav Havel.
in collaboration with Zbyněk Baladrán, It Always Makes Her Sick When She Thinks Of The Infinite, 2008, Reading machine performing severals sort stories, 68 diapositive slides,construction, 8 slide projectors, wood, and metal. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiri Skala, Exchange of Handwriting, 2006, A play for 2 actors, 2 school chairs, 4 notebooks, and 2 pens. Courtesy of the artist.
in collaboration with Zbyněk Baladrán, The Involuntary Archivist, 2009, Watching machine performing a sort story, digital video, construction, hard disk driver, speakers, HD media player, projector, wood, and metal. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiri Skala, One Family of Objects, 2009, Book, A5 format. Courtesy of the artist and JPR Ringier and tranzit.org.
Jiri Skala, To Be Titled, first and second version, 2006 - 2008, Audio installation, 2 CD player, 2 hi-fi receiver, iron construction. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Czech Republic
Past Resident2011: Canada Council for the Arts
Jinny Yu
Jinny Yu is a painter whose work considers the complexities of visual spatiality and materiality; her paintings oscillate between the physical and material space of the world and the pictorial and more subtly material ‘space’ of the painted surface. Yu’s interest in this problematic leads her to explore the tensions between representation and abstraction, and her paintings frequently involve both. She paints with oil on aluminum, employing conventional brushes as well as other materials and devices. She is fascinated by aluminum because its reflective yet opaque surface concretizes the aesthetic and representational issues which form the current focus of her practice.
Born in Seoul and based in Canada, Jinny Yu received her MFA from York University, Toronto, Canada and BFA from Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. Yu is an Associate Professor of Painting at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan; Sotheby’s, London, UK; Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada; Taehwa Eco Art Festival, Ulsan City, Republic of Korea; Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Canada, and McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Ana Santos and Jinny Yu
February 15, 2011
Jinny Yu, Ceiling Painting (A Tigress’ Wedding Day), 2008, Oil on canvas and fluorescent light fixtures, 120 × 240 in. (304.8 × 609.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jinny Yu, Story Of A Global Nomad, 2008, Oil and graphite on aluminum, Various dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Jinny Yu, Sequence, 2009, Oil on aluminum and latex paint, 204 × 448 in. (518.16 × 1137.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jinny Yu, Wedge, 2009, Metallic tape and welded steel rods, 144 × 600 × 2 in. (365.76 × 1524 × 5.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist and TEAF09, Ulsan City.
Jinny Yu, Notes, 2010, Oil on aluminum, 24 × 19 in. (60.96 × 48.26 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Canada
Marinella Senatore
Marinella Senatore is a teacher, film director and director of photography. She also works with drawing, painting and installation. In the last years, Senatore has been working with storytelling as a way to involve the public in the making of an art work. These projects are often collaborative films where the viewer becomes the participant, and the hierarchy between the artist as author and the public as recipient is questioned and renegotiated. As a director of photography, Senatore uses cinema lighting in her film and video installations. She has recently dedicated her time to photography, installation, drawing and painting, investigating the concepts of ‘collective memory’, modalities of narration and the social mechanisms of relationships.
Marinella Senatore teaches Video and Photography at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. She attended the National Film School in Rome, Italy; the XI Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy with visiting professor Alfredo Jaar; the Fine Arts School, Naples, Italy; and currently pursues a PhD in Public Art at University of Castilla-La Mancha. Her work has been exhibited widely in Italy and abroad, incuding Museo MADRE, Naples, Italy; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Moderna Museet, Stockolm, Sweden; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA.
Events & Exhibitions
The Power to Host
June 15–July 29, 2011
Marinella Senatore, System of Measure, 2008, Mixed media on paper, 15 × 24 in. (38.1 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Marinella Senatore, Generation, 2009, Lambda print, 40 × 60 in. (101.6 × 152.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Marinella Senatore, ROUTE #2, 2010, Dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Marinella Senatore, Speak Easy, 2009, Video. Courtesy of the artist.
Marinella Senatore, Nui Simu, 2010, HD video. Courtesy of the artist.
