Pinocchio's Dilemma - Ingrid Bachmann

Ingrid Bachmann's installation "Pinocchio's Dilemma" features moving tongues and a growing Pinocchio nose. The potential of these colourful candy-like tongues to tell tall tales, incredible stories and fabulous lies raises questions about what we believe is true.

Bachmann is interested in the stories we tell, as individuals and as cultures, and the intersection between lies and stories, fact and fiction. Bachmann's keen observation on the human condition has always had a strong and piercing presence in her work. In "Pinocchio's Dilemma" there is an added sense of compassion hidden in the humour and the pathos.

Pinocchio's Dilemma was one of the works in the exhibition "Moving Stories" curated by Kai Chan, and shown at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto in November and December of 2007. The other featured artists were Richard Fung (video), Joel Robson (wood) and Diane Nasr O'Young (ceramic).

Video: Wojtek Gwiazda

Website:
http://www.ingridbachmann.com

Other websites:
Bachmann's hermit website: http://www.digitalhermit.ca/
Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art website:
http://www.ccca.ca/artists/artist_info.html?languagePref=en&link_id=1840

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Ingrid
• Bachmann
• contemporary
• art
• Toronto
• Montreal
• Quebec
• Canada
• tongues
• Harbourfront

[AriarchRS]

wow they are really cool, i'd love to see them in agallery :O