September 29, 2017 - October 27, 2017

2014 | installation
President’s Cottage, Mount Allison University.

Friday, September 29:
Exhibition preview and remarks with the artist: 7:00 pm
Opening reception: 7:30 pm

The artist revisits Colin Campbell’s pioneering 1972 video True/False, which features Campbell alternately affirming and negating delicate statements about himself and his private life. Initially intended as a remake, the video instead summons Campbell’s voice to speak once more; a fragile, reversed palimpsest. The video component of Colin is my real name was filmed at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, where True/False was originally produced.

Hours: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Tuesday to Friday.

Presented in collaboration with the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University.

True/False appears as part of Colin is my real name thanks to sponsorship from Vtape and the Estate of Colin Campbell.

Image: still from Colin Is My Real Name
2013, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (Montréal, 1973) is an artist and diarist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. In his work you will find bells, bouquets, enchanted forests, folding screens, glitter, gold leaf, imaginary paintings, love letters, madrigals, megaphones, mirrors, naked men, sign language, secret libraries, subtitles, vases, wrapping paper and the voices of birds, boy sopranos, contraltos, countertenors and sirens. His work is in the permanent collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), the Polin Museum for the History of Polish Jews, Thielska Galleriet (Stockholm) and the National Gallery of Canada. www.nemerofsky.ca