Inside Incarnations
Incarnations is a mid-career retrospective of Janieta Eyre's fantastic, carnivalesque work. Her hallmark self-portraits feature her twinned, flirting with the idea of morphous and multiple identities. Each completely unique photograph features shared iconography - pregnancy, menstruation, cheese graters, vegetables, farm animals, brocade dresses, and on more than one (or two) occasion, a framed copy of another one of her images.
Available everywhere beautiful books are sold, Incarnations is a tiny gem: full-colour glossy images are nestled between essays and poetry from some of Janieta's most daring contemporaries – Christian Bok, Lynn Crosbie, Richard Vaughan, David Dorenbaum, and Lori Waxman, all bound with paper over board. Below is a sneak peak between the covers, including part of the introduction by the book's editor Suzanne Zelazo, and if the spirit moves you, copies are available for sale here.
Sisters Sophie and Sarah,
As an innovator and agitator, Janieta Eyre () has pioneered an integrative photographic aesthetic that pushes the boundaries of creative forms and subjectivity to confound ontological certaintie
Janieta Eyre
Janieta Eyre lives and works in Toronto. Since the mids, she has been exploring the idea of duality and its disquieting aspects by metamorphosing herself in her photographs. Originally fascinated with death, the occult, and psychic phenomena, she then turned to maternity and birth. In addition to her carefully staged photographs, Eyre recently produced a video, Natural History Museum, in which a man attends his own birth. Her photographs are popular in America and Europe and have been featured in several solo exhibitions, including New Works at the Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver, in ; Staging at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, in ; and Lady Lazarus at Francesco Girondini Arte Contemporanea in Verona, Italy, in Her works were also presented at the Kwanju Biennale in South Korea, in ; the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, in Ottawa, and Dazibao, in Montreal, in ; as part of the exhibition Métamorphose et clonage at the Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, in ; and in Mois de la Photo à Montréal, in
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