Body / Transforming / Gesture, 2015
Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Montreal, Quebec

“The Body is the most personal place that you can express from” (1) (1) S. Safdie

"Continuing her decades-long investigation into the ways artistic media can uncover the continuities between the human and the natural, and the power of gesture to reveal that which is obscure to the naked eye, this collection of videos, photos and sculptures invites us to interrogate the intentionalities and commonalities behind artistic form and human expression. Exploring the ways gestures unfold in both space and time, these works distill the rich meanings and implications of gesture into images, both created and captured, but always subject to Safdie’s subtle yet purposeful manipulation [...]

[...] The video series Morning in Varanasi and the photos produced from highly manipulated stills from these videos, find Safdie observing the gestures, and their implications in the bodies now of others. Working from a fixed viewpoint, and at distances where the images are abstracted and stylized from the very beginning, the gestural body which she so carefully constructed in Body/Stone/Water is now shown, if one looks carefully, to be inherent in the world at large.”(2)

(2) Eric Lewis

Body/Transforming/Gesture, 2015