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Location: Ryerson Image Centre
Year Zero: A Prison With No Walls is a multi-media exhibition, reflecting on the relationship between memory, trauma, past, and present. The work focuses specifically on the repercussions of the Khmer Rouge genocide, which took place throughout Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. After learning of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge history in 2009, Warren went back to Cambodia in 2011 & 2012 to travel throughout the country, collecting stories from survivors and documenting specific sites. Using both photographs, video and sound, the series provides a visual framework of present sites inhabited by traumatic histories. Incorporating direct quotes from survivors, the images within this series creates a dynamic that reveals a gap between the atrocities that were suffered and what the landscape fails to reveal. Similar to the photographs, video and audio are looped to display images and sounds specific to S-21 Tuol Sleng prison and Choeung Ek Killing Fields, placing the viewer directly in front of the sites where so many lost their lives. Gemma Warren is an emerging artist currently residing in Toronto, where she recently graduated from the photography program, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University. Born in London, England, and raised throughout the UK, her analogue photography and video based work often reflects on documentary driven subjects. Common themes explore displacement, memory and collective tragedy. Warren also works with film and sound and has a background in music and media studies. Warren recently exhibited her work as a featured artist in the 2012 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival after receiving the Alliance Franaise Exhibition Award. Her current work is centered on the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia and will be exhibited to the public for the first time during her solo exhibition in the Student Gallery at the Ryerson Image Centre. OPENING RECEPTION: WED MARCH 20TH, 6PM – 8PM EXHIBITION DATES: MARCH 15TH – APRIL 14TH — www.gemmawarren.com http://www.akimbo.ca/akimbos/?id=55660 http://www.ryerson.ca/ric/exhibitions/Warren.html
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