"Montreal Photographer Holly King"
1999-09-23 until 1999-12-05
Montreal Museum of Fine Art
Montreal, QU, CA Canada

From September 23 to December 5, 1999, the exhibition Holly King: Landscapes of the Imagination will feature a selection of twenty-one scale works in colour and black-and-white produced by this Montreal photographer since 1985.

Throughout her career, King has created strangely beautiful landscapes that hover between fiction and reality. She builds models using everyday objects selected and arranged to represent the four elements. When photographed, enlarged and skillfully lit, these miniatures are transformed into fantastic settings for epic battles and intimate inner struggles. The exhibitions themes include the universe of mythical gods and the forces of nature, and human presence with man-made structures, death, absence and memory. In Forest of Enchantment, Kings latest series, magical places are veiled with tangled vines that appear to be imbued with life. King has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada and in several group exhibitions in New York, San Diego, San Bernardino, Boston, Nice, Tarjon, Korea, and Basel, Switzerland. Her works can be found in a number of public and private collections in the United States, France, Switzerland and Canada, including a recent acquisition by he Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. A catalogue with colour and black-and-white reproductions accompanies the exhibition. The texts are by the artist and Pierre Dessureault, Associate Curator of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. The exhibition Holly King: Landscapes of the Imagination, is organized and circulated by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, an affiliate of the National Gallery of Canada. It will be presented in conjunction with the 1999 Mois de la photo in Montreal. Stéphane Aquin, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, is responsible for the presentation of the exhibition in Montreal.

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