From left to right: The columns were by Valerie Salez and titled Slipcolumns, painted cardboard
columns dressed in slips. The two pink wall sections contained five drawings by Sarah Hollenberg and underneath a video
titled Succor. In the corner was Untitled by Heather Anderson, consisting of baby clothes, twigs and seeds suspended on
clear line. A series of photographs on the far right were by Rebecca Roberts.
From left to right: In the corner was work by Valerie Salez, titled Sheer Pantasy. This consisted of
digital prints of various women's faces covered with nylon stocking, nylons stretched out on the wall and nylon
packaging. In the centre was a second collection of suspended objects by Heather Anderson, made with sponges, coloured
marshmallows, balloons, pipe-cleaners and other matter. An Untitled collaboration between Sarah Hollenberg and Rebecca
Roberts was made up of an upturned monitor covered with wax and hair (exhibiting a video), surrounded by a large wax
hairball. To the right was Miho Mukai's untitled video installation of two monitors, four mirrors placed on the floor and
orange peels placed at the corners of the mirrors.
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The Dirty Dishes is a collective consisting of Halifax artists Heather Anderson, Sarah Hollenberg, Miho
Mukai, Rebecca Roberts and Valerie Salez whose intentions are to bring a feminist perspective to issues of
subjectivity, identity, femininity and commodity. The Dirty Dishes intend to "explore the frilly underbelly of remembered
pleasures, exposing the sweet perversions of plastic love, fruity flesh, hairy crud and sheer pantasy." In this
exhibition, The Dirty Dishes presented a collection of individual projects which arose through an ongoing collaborative
framework.
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