Principles & Deceptions

Solo show at Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Exhibition included 5 photographic works, 2 publications and film installation/ screening performance. Principles & Deceptions addresses the artist’s focus on copying, repetition, and theft through the presentation of her film Hidden in Plain Sight (2015) alongside a series of photographic excerpts from her bookwork The Overcoat (2015). Hidden in Plain Sight, originally commissioned by L’Été Photographique de Lectoure in Toulouse, re-presents short excerpts from Robert Bresson’s film Pickpocket (1959). For The Overcoat, a bookwork published by Four Corners Press in London, Dobai contributes a series of photographs of commercial display windows and vitrines that are placed in conversation with Nikolai Gogol’s 1842 novella of the same name, in which the protagonist works as a copyist. There will be a special performance at the opening reception, where the presentation of Dobai’s film work Hidden in Plain Sight will be accompanied by a live reading