Public Artwork
Normal
Location:
Gallery 96 (Discovery Centre), 270 Water Street, Stratford, ON, Canada
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Alternate title:
The New Normal
Artwork creator(s):
Yanover, Shirley
Text author(s):
Yanover, Shirley
Remarks on location:
Installed above the entrance to the building and on the field.
Description:
This exhibition also featured two other parts. New Normal, an acrylic painting, was hung in the cafeteria. Normal Graduation 23 consisted of twelve oval plastic clocks that were suspended from metal chains on the chandelier in the entrance. The clocks contain the following elements: portraits from 1913-1973 repertories, newspaper cuttings of local Stratford, wallpaper evoking the era at which the portraits were taken, a copy of the New Normal painting and the logo of the Normal School.
Text of the artwork:
NORMAL -- THE NEW normal
Text theme:
Belonging and social identity
Artwork theme:
History of the place
History:
Normal Resonance. Gallery 96, Stratford, Ontario, July 5-September 28 2003 [commissioner: Cindy Hubert].
Event date(s):
2003 Dimensions:
Height:
0.92m
Width:
0.6m
Depth:
0.6 m Note(s):
This exhibition was held at Gallery 96, which used to be an École Normale (an academic institute to train masters) until 1973 (the "Normal School"). The text is a reference to the location.
Artist's biography:
Yanover, Shirley
Owner(s):
Collection of the artist 
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