“Chafing”
Jennifer Campbell
17 June → 2 July 2005

In Chafing, Jennifer Campbell explores the body (her own), transforming it and transposing it into landscape, furniture, machines and objects. The body becomes a performative instrument intimately linked to everyday objects that create unusual environments highlighting the friction between amusement and fear. In this often surreal universe, apparently playful appearances trigger a climate of lingering psychological tension. The artist takes aim at her limits: the limits of her body’s endurance, the limits of perceptibility, and the limits of our ability to modulate reality.

Jennifer Campbell was born in Vancouver, B.C. and now lives and works in Montreal, Canada. She holds a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts from the University of Victoria, B.C. and recently received an MFA from Concordia University (Montreal) in 2004. Her work has been included in several exhibitions across Canada.