Andrea Cooper
Andrea Cooper is an international media artist with a Masters in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. Her most recent work Honey premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival's Forum Expanded in February 2010.  Strange Things premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival's Forum Expanded in 2007 and showed at Extra City in Antwerp, Belgium in 2008. Cooper won the National Film Board of Canada's Emerging Filmmaker/Video artist award at the Images Festival in 2007.  Cooper's work has been exhibited in galleries across Canada, most recently she had a solo exhibition of Honey at V-Tape as part of the Images Festival gallery programming, as well as Fickle As Poison at Grunt Gallery in Vancouver in 2009. Her work is distributed by V-Tape in Toronto.

Cooper's art explores representations of desire and issues of female sexuality and its relationship to the psyche.

Using non-conventional narrative and performance in video art, Cooper provides a new means to express visual and oral language. She is interested in the limits of language, and how speech has the power to convey meanings that transcend normal linguistic conventions.  As with all of her previous work, she is interested in a dream-logic beneath the surface of things, much like the grace notes of consciousness.

www.andreacooper.com

Image1 : Installation view of Strange Things at Extra City, Antwerp 2007.
Images 2 and 3: Stills from the 2009 video Honey