From the Filing Cabinets
2017
video 14 minutes

“From the Filing Cabinets, Beaudry anachronistic groupings of images based on the museum’s arbitrary categorization demand the viewer consider the contents of each photograph at a much slower pace.  Using the very means of documentation  - the collecting, preserving, and archiving of photographs – as her medium, Beaudry reminds us that no photograph is neutral, that no image can exist outside of its relationship to other images.  And with a beautiful sleight of hand that supplants one image for another, she highlights the power of abstraction to help us see images in different contexts.”
Jayne Wilkinson, Curator
From catalogue essay:  In Whose Hands, A Camera?

From the Filing Cabinets est une documentation d’une différente approche à l’archivage en regardant arbitrairement la représentation de la ville d’Oshawa. Les photos proviennent des archives du Oshawa Community Museum et elles sont regroupées ou séquencées selon les des activités de loisir qu’elles représentent (lecture, broderie) ou selon d’autres observations ou curiosités.

+information: VISITOR INFORMATION

Thank you to The Robert McLaughlin Gallery for commissioning this work presented in the exhibition Visitor Information from April 29 to September 17, 2017.   The exhibition is curated by by Linda Jansma and Jayne Wilkinson and features the works of Michèle Pearson Clarke, Martie Giefert, Morris Lum and Jeff Thomas.

Thank you to Jennifer Weymark  (archivist at the Oshawa Community Museum) for assistance with this project.