<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><img height="400" width="550" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="C5FE718F-877D-411E-963F-B11BD037E55F" src="cid:014C4A14-7F07-402F-A27E-EB4DBF302D4D@nexus.uwaterloo.ca"></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font size="3"><br></font><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">ECHO OF THE UNKNOWN</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">JANET BIGGS</span></strong></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="3"><br></font></span></strong></div><div><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Last chance to experience this stunning multi-channel video installation</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Exhibition closes Saturday December 17, 2016</span></span></span><div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Echo of the Unknown</em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> stems from the artist’s memories of her grandfather's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Centering on the four-channel video installation </span><em style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can't Find My Way Home,</em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the exhibition addresses the challenges of maintaining a sense of self in the face of physical and psychological extremes. Footage of the artist exploring the Merkers crystal cavern is contrasted with a neurologist doing research in a lab, and an older gentleman wandering the aisles of a gem and mineral show. By drawing parallels between mineral formations in the cavern, those generated in a petri dish, and those found at a convention, Biggs elicits the complex skein of memory, and its loss.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This exhibition has been organized by Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston.</span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Exhibition is free and open to the public</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="1"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Image: Janet Biggs, </font><em><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Can</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">’</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">t Find My Way Home</font></em><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> (still), 2015, 4-channel, high definition video installation with sound, 8:19 min, looped</font></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">. Photo: Scott Lee.</span></span></font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York.</span></font></div></div></div></body></html>