Opening reception for Janet Biggs' exhibition

Thursday, November 3, 2016 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

uwag opening November 2016
Janet Biggs
Echo of the Unknown

Echo of the Unknown stems from the artist’s memories of her grandfather's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Centering on the four-channel video installation Can't Find My Way Home, the exhibition addresses the challenges of maintaining a sense of self in the face of physical and psychological extremes. Footage of the artist exploring the Merkers crystal cavern is contrasted with a neurologist doing research in a lab, and an older gentleman wandering the aisles of a gem and mineral show. By drawing parallels between mineral formations in a cavern, those generated in a petri dish, and those found at a convention, Biggs elicits the complex skein of memory, and its loss.

This exhibition has been organized by Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston.
 

The exhibition continues at UWAG from November 4 to December 17, 2016.