Born in New York in 1971, artist Adad Hannah spent his formative years in London and Vancouver before settling in Montreal, where he currently lives and works. He has exhibited in Seoul, Madrid, Poland, Amsterdam, Cardiff and Basel to mention but a few.
The past six years of his career have been focused on “tableaux vivants” or “living stills,” a process involves posing models and then asking them to stand completely still while they are recorded on video for 5-10 minutes. The result is both captivating and mesmerizing as the model’s breathing or blinking illuminates the space between photography and video. If you want to read an essay by artist and writer Steve Reinke about Adad’s work click
here.
In late 2006 the Vancouver Art Gallery Asked Adad to stage a live “tableaux vivant” as part of a curated performance art series called Fuse. Adad wanted to create a performance piece […]
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