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NIGHTINGALE
Meera Margaret Singh

September 10 to 30, 2008
Vernissage: Saturday September 13, 2008, 4pm

"So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn,
and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her.
Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song,
for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death..."
-Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose

Meera Margaret Singh's most recent work, Nightingale, is a series of still and moving images of her mother. Harking back to literary and artistic symbolism, the nightingale often appears as a metaphor for both love and loss. As the protagonist in a narrative of human fragility and tenacity, Singh's mother embodies the twin impulses of living and dying. With Nightingale, Singh explores the inescapable reality of age and loss and the beauty made acute by this inevitability.

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My gratitude goes to Raymonde April, George Bogardi, Yedda Morrison, David McMillan, Larry Glawson , Kegan McFadden and Michael Birchall for their unparalleled support and invaluable insight. Thank you to Patrice Duhamel, Martin Schop and Karine Cossette-Barbeau for their assistance. Thank you to CIAM, the Banff Centre, Les Territoires.

Thank you, Mom, for this gift.