Erin Shirreff's First Italian Solo Show at Palazzo De' Toschi, Bologna

Erin Shirreff (born 1975 in Kelowna, British Columbia) opens her first Italian solo exhibition at the Salone Banca di Bologna in Palazzo De' Toschi, running until March 4, 2018. Her works are held in major collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. For this show, Shirreff created site-specific works: a video piece and dark plaster sculptures. Consistent with her practice, the artist explores how human perception of the world is often distorted by technology. In her videos, she manually manipulates images—often photographs—by adding filters and lights. Subjects are frequently sculptures made for the purpose, later filmed or rephotographed, leaving viewers disoriented about the actual scale of the work in space. On view in Bologna is an animated feature-length film titled "Son," a homophone for "Sun," depicting the solar eclipse of late summer 2017 in America. The dark plaster sculptures, "Many Moons," represent everyday objects like bottles, plates, and bowls, alluding to daily labor and still lifes reminiscent of Giorgio Morandi (Bologna, 1890–1964).