Sarah Anne Johnson "House on Fire"
Julie Saul Gallery
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The exhibition is based on a personal family story and consists of nine small bronze sculptures which metaphorically represent her grandmother, a series of elaborately painted and modified family photographs, and a large sculptural "doll house" from which the exhibition gets its title. In the 1950s as part of the CIA project "MK-ULTRA", patients in the care of Dr. Ewen Cameron at MacGill University were subjected to a series of mind-control experiments including shock and drug therapies and medically-induced prolonged sleep. Johnson's maternal grandmother Velma Orlikow sought the doctor's treatment for post-partum depression and unwittingly took part in the experiments. In 1979 a class action suit was initiated by a group of 9 of the patients, and it was settled out of court in 1988. It is a disturbing and fascinating body of work which moves Johnson forward in her multimedia narrative approach.
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from September 17, 2009 to November 14, 2009