27 Roseanna Joy NAy
Title: Already Seen
Dimensions: 16 Minutes, 2 Seconds
Year of Completion: 2019
Medium: Video (On USB Stick in Pouch) w/ Tiny Cabinet, Replica Dress & Signed Dialogue Sheet
Edition: #1
Estimated Value: $225
Courtesy of the Artist
“I remember him falling and falling down through the branches, layers and layers, and I knew he was just gone, out of our lives.”
Impossibly tall ladder, impossibly tall pine tree,
Having felt something before,
Feeling I’ve heard this all before,
A belief someone close to you has been replaced by a double.
Out of sync with yourself, I’m bad at looking at myself.
Long and short,
Memory.
“Does that ever happen to you? Do you ever have dreams like that?” Premonitions.
I have always wanted to, and sometimes I’ll have strange vivid dreams, but they’re never specific to my real life, not quite, they might have something to do with my life abstractly or like my unconscious thoughts, but it never happens, it’s not prolific like yours are.
“One time I dreamt I was choking on hair.” I don’t have any now to choke on, at least not my own.
Your brain just wants to make this work, even if it has to make a few things up.
Roseanna Joy Nay is an emerging multidisciplinary artist and recent graduate of the BFA program at the University of Alberta.
They are currently based in Edmonton, AB, Canada where they are working at Latitude 53 in the position of development intern.
Their practice uses materials they have a life-long relationship with, materials that stretch back to childhood and seem to go on forever. They are looking at interpersonal relationships and family dynamics, and how formative personal narratives endure and crossover into our present as well as project themselves into our future, day-to-day objects and interactions.
Nay has performed at dc3 Art Projects as a part of the Zero Gravity International Performance Art Festival, as well as at the Parallel Space Gallery.
Their work To Touch Everything, To Feel Everything, collaboratively produced with Benni McDonald, is on continuing display at the Cary Hill Sculpture Park at Salem Art Works in upstate New York.