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Artwork details
- Printing : Hybrid on Paper under glass
- Framing : Framed
- Dimensions : 35.4x44.3in
About this artwork
Surveillance is now ubiquitous. No longer the province of the secret police and nosy neighbours, our ever-monitored lives begin with our phones (and end with the ever-present nosy neighbours). “Work # 944: Overt + [Covert] + Compulsion + (Revulsion) = (?)” is a work about life today (granted, from a queer perspective). The work consists of nine 37.5 x 30 cm (14” x 11”) framed colour and black and white digital photographs from a variety of sources…
insinuating the spied upon and the spies (and you, the viewer, are directly implicated as both the spies and the spied upon.
Bruce Eves
Canada
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Bruce Eves was the recipient of the Governor-General’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual and Media Arts in 2018 and was the subject of Peter Dudar’s feature-length documentary “Bruce Eves in Polari” that premiered at The Power Plant. Eves was ranked 26th on the Alt-Power100 list compiled by ArtLyst (UK). In the past he was assistant-programming director at the Centre for Experimental Art and Communication (CEAC) in the late 1970s; and throughout the 1980s was the co-founder and chief archivist of the International Gay History Archive (now housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript division of the New York Public Library). Eves continues an active practice of exhibiting and curating on the cutting-edge, and in recent years has pushed the envelope further by expanding his work to include spoken-word projects performed monthly at the Black Eagle bar’s Dirty Queer Poetry Nights. Eves lives and works in Toronto and seeks representation. His CV can be viewed at www.bruceeves.net
Bruce Eves
"Overt + [Covert] + Compulsion + (Revulsion) = (?)"
$2,310