The project consists of two separate, yet integral parts: a video installation entitled Fireplace and a sculptural installation entitled Wounding.

The video installation Fireplace plays a repeated image of a bomb exploding in slow motion. The sound which fills the space is of a nursery rhyme sung by a woman and a child. Both voices remain concetrated on singing throughout the entire duration of destruction, in an attempt to separate themselves from a terrible reality portrayed on the screen.

The sculptural installation Wounding consists of oversized corset-like garments, made out of transparent black fabric, stretched over the circular tubes. Their entire surface is randomly pierced, creating slashes of "open wounds". The garments speak of the inability to shield or protect and lay bare the ephemeral quality of existence.

Vessna Perunovich graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where she also obtained her Masters Degree in 1987. She immigrated to Canada in 1988, and has since exhibited nationally and internationally. Her most recent projects include: Survival Strategies at the Third Avenue in Vancouver; Collective Unconscious Project 2 at the York Quay Gallery, Toronto, and Red at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. Perunovich work has been reviewed in Canadian Art, World Sculpture News, Espace Sculpture, C Magazine, dART, Globe and Mail, and National Post, among others. She has received grants from Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council.

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