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Jen Delos Reyes is prepared to show you just how far friendship can go. In two related pieces, she explores giving connection away—in the form of felt hands cut in the shape of the hands of people who have touched her in some way and as “business” cards announcing her desire to be your friend (or for the viewer to use to invite another person’s friendship). In keeping with Reyes’ community-building gallery projects—choirs built for a day, exercises in drawing the faces of strangers, listening to another person’s heart or stomach—the hands and cards she offers here are signs of commitment to the idea of proximity and closeness. She reminds us to look around us for what we have or might have to gain. Exhibition Text: Shana Agid Jen Delos Reyes | We Should Be Friends | paper | [2006]
Jennifer Delos Reyes is a MFA Candidate at the University of Regina, Canada. Her theoretical and studio research interests include: relational aesthetics,interactive media and artists’ social roles. She has exhibited videos, installations, and site-specific participatory work in New York, Illinois, Manitoba, Halifax, Ontario and Saskatchewan, and had recently completed an intensive workshop Come Together:Art and Social Engagement at The Kitchen. She was involved in the arts community in her hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba where she was one of the founding members of The Outworks Gallery, an artist run centre and arts space. She is currently involved in the local arts community in Regina as a member of the VAC at the University of Regina and the creator of an online arts events listing for the Regina arts community. She has received awards from the University of Regina’s Faculty of Graduate Studies, the Faculty of Fine Arts, the University of Manitoba, the Order ofthe Knights of Rizal, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. |
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