Usdan Gallery Bennington College
Still from video showing collection of objects which are part of Collective Affinities: Personal collections from the Bennington College community Sept 17 to Nov 23 2024 curated by Anne Thompson, Director of Usdan Gallery.
Label from exhibition:
Sue Rees, visual arts faculty in animation/design
Transforming objects (from India, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, Uganda, the United Kingdom, and the United States)
from one stasis to another video, 11mins 2024
Over more than 25 years, Rees has found, purchased, or been gifted objects that have the capacity to transform. Things in her collection can shift through means of an action, however small, to reveal something surprising or change from one static condition to another, as demonstrated in the video she made specifically for the “Collective Affinities” exhibition.