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EVERYTHING You Always Wanted
(1991) The Power Plant, Toronto Canada,
curated, with catalog essay, by Louise Dompierre.
The viewer entered the work by walking down a corridor and then then around the corner of a large movie screen - crossing behind a film loop of the stage set scene in Sunset Boulevard.
EVERYTHING You Always Wanted was installed in two galleries. The downstairs space referred to production; the upstairs referred to distribution.
The two spaces were connected by windows. From downstairs one could see the brooding face of Marlon Brando on an oversized film poster; upstairs one looked down on a worktable, a spotlight and tiny projections in the corners of the room. A section of the floor had been raised, there seemed to be work going on farther below still.
Soundtracks drifted between the two spaces with a diffusion of low level anxiety and with a yearning to glamorize one's life by identifying with the heroes and storylines of Hollywood. A voicover heard through headphones overlay the sounds of a workday on set heard throughout specifically placed speakers in other parts of the room.
The piece was filled with promises, both as a description of the psychic function of the movies on our lives and as a device, as another kind of screen for our own projections into that world.
A compact disc accompanied the bookwork/catalog for the exhibition.