Janet Cardiff’s “Forty-Part Motet” at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Just over one week until Janet Cardiff’s Forty-Part Motet opens to the public at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. This is the first exhibition of the 3-year agreement between the National Gallery of Canada | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, and the WAG.
Cardiff’s incredible sound piece reworks Thomas Tallis’ Spem in Alium (Hope in any other) by specifically positioning 40 speakers around the room, of which she reveals, “allows the viewer to climb inside the music”.
The Forty Part Motet - Rideau Chapel National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller represented Canada in 2001 at the Venice Biennale with Paradise Institute, winning Canada’s first and only award at the world’s most critically claimed art exhibition.
In 2001, Border Crossings published a full issue focusing on Venice which included a revealing interview with the two Canadian representatives.
