Press Release

Rodney Graham
A Reverie Interrupted by the Police, 2004
1st - 30 June 2005

Born 1949 in Vancouver, where he lives and works.
Rodney Graham makes videos in which he plays characters who are emblematic of a period. He builds up a typology of figures. In Vexation Island (1997) he is a pirate on a desert island. City Self/ Country Self presents the artist face to face with his double during a comic self-encounter in which he plays both dandy and bumpkin. In How I Became a Ramblin’ Man, he does the lone cowboy. A Reverie Interrupted by the Police shows the artist taking advantage of a moment of freedom to play a melody “in the style of John Cage” on his piano, before he is taken back by the police.

A Reverie Interrupted by the Police, 2004, 8’
collection Pierre Huber, Geneva, courtesy Art & Public, Geneva