%0 Journal Article
%T Stay the Night: Meera Margaret Singh at the Gladstone Hotel Stay the Night : Meera Margaret Singh ¨¤ l¡¯h tel Gladstone
%A Kerry Manders
%J MediaTropes
%D 2012
%I University of Toronto Libraries
%X This essay examines Meera Margaret Singh¡¯s exhibition Nightingale in the time and place of the liminal space we call ¡°hotel.¡± In intertexual dialogue with Wayne Koestenbaum¡¯s Hotel Theory, the author not only reviews Singh¡¯s intimate photographs of her mother, she reads the images with and against the architecture in which they are exhibited. The Gladstone as exhibition space redoubles Singh¡¯s emphasis on the tense connectivity of apparent binaries: youth and age, public and private, artist and model, object and spectator, living and dying. The quotidian activities of hotel living¡ªguests¡¯ arrivals, departures, and returns¡ªbecome inextricable pieces of Singh¡¯s site-specific installation. The author theorizes what Freud calls the ¡°foretaste of mourning¡± in this work, grappling with what will be but is not yet the death of the mother. Singh¡¯s Nightingale proposes that we do not ¡°work through¡± mourning: mourning is a perpetual way of being in the present. Cet article examine l¡¯exposition photographique de Meera Margaret Singh dans l¡¯espace liminal qu¡¯est l¡¯h tel. En dialogue intertextuel avec l¡¯ uvre de Wayne Koestenbaum, Hotel Theory, l¡¯auteur examine les portraits intimes de la m¨¨re de la photographe, tout en les lisant en fonction de l¡¯architecture de leur emplacement. L¡¯h tel Gladstone en tant que lieu d¡¯exposition redouble donc l¡¯accent que met la photographe sur les liens tendus des syst¨¨mes binaires apparents: la jeunesse et l¡¯age ; le public et le priv¨¦ ; l¡¯artiste et le mod¨¨le ; l¡¯objet et le spectateur; vivre et mourir. Les activit¨¦s quotidiennes de la vie en h tel ¨C l¡¯arriv¨¦e, le d¨¦part, et le retour d¡¯invit¨¦s ¨C deviennent des ¨¦l¨¦ments inextricables de l¡¯ uvre in situ. L¡¯auteur th¨¦orise le concept de Freud sur l¡¯avant-go t du deuil, explorant ce qui deviendra mais ne l¡¯est pas encore : la mort de la m¨¨re. Cette exposition propose que nous ne   faisons   pas le deuil : le deuil est une fa on perp¨¦tuelle d¡¯exister au pr¨¦sent.
%K Meera Margaret Singh
%K photography
%K hotel
%K home
%K mother
%K liminal
%K mourning
%U http://www.mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes/article/view/16894