Rosamunde Bordo: Magic Show

Rosamunde Bordo, found postcard from The Denise File (2018–). Courtesy of the artist.

Rosamunde Bordo: Magic Show

Western Front, Vancouver, BC - To Jul 25

by Michael Turner

Magic Show by Vancouver-based Rosamunde Bordo is an extension of the artist’s ongoing project The Denise File, which curator Kiel Torres describes as “an interdisciplinary work of serial detective fiction written through physical space and material form.” Consisting of video and a new series of metal-cast, woodworked, sewn and glass-blown objects, “these forms resemble clues or magical instruments, positioning the figures of the detective and the magician as corresponding frameworks for making meaning through intuition and association, iteration and sleight of hand.” westernfront.ca