The Elephant in the Room
Ursula Brookbank
Artist-in-Residence
February 14-25, 2022

I got it then I lost it; (video installation detail) giving the paper the form of grief.

From the Artist:

I spent two weeks trying to give physical form to grief; the image of an elephant, the large gray room, large pieces of paper being my materials. Video projection of my numerous attempts to make the elephant evolved into an emotional description.

Using film, overhead projection, photography, video, and performance, I make textural experiences that capture the illusive and transformative potential of ever day objects and materials. These ordinary things, under conditions of light and shadow, produce another world, one that illuminates the poetry of the ordinary.

Performance, projection, and screening events have been presented at Automata, the Echo Park Film Center, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT), the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Velaslavasay Panorama, in Los Angeles; [onto and outside of] David Ireland’s 500 CappStreet house in San Francisco; and at the Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY.