Keren Cytter solo exhibition, Based on a True Story at Oakville Galleries in Toronto

With hand-held camerawork, abrupt edits and nonlinear narratives, the short films of Berlin-based Keren Cytter evoke an uncertain, frenzied atmosphere. Wine at a birthday party turns into blood and cake spontaneously combusts. A traumatic childhood piano lesson is re-enacted in a Greek restaurant. Characters bark at one another in languages they seem not to understand, mimic each another and morph into the same person. At once DIY in feel and impeccably crafted, Cytter’s art borrows from sources such as avant-garde film, horror flicks and musicals. Shedding light on our mediated culture, her work suggests that our subjectivities are cobbled together from scenes in movies, novels, artworks, as well as from a mixture of our own experiences and those of others.

Keren Cytter: Based on a True Story
14 April – 10 June 2012
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens and at Centennial Square
Centennial Square:
120 Navy Street
Oakville, ON
L6J 2Z4