Video (oils, false wall, latex)_10:43_2011
Praxis documents a performance in which artist Keeley Haftner successively paints over a series of five nude self-portraits in five different locations in Sackville, New Brunswick. Each nude image was painted in oils on the same freestanding false wall. The act of painting and 'painting over' took place in five different settings, beginning with the intimate space of the artist's studio and progressing to a downtown storefront. This was Haftner's undergraduate thesis work.