Visible Records is pleased to present Return of the Triumphal Mother by Dani and Sheilah ReStack. This new work, made specifically for Visible Records, continues their imagining of queer family, desire, relationship and fantasy. In their newest projection installation the viewer is invited into an image and constructed set for the shared meal with members of the ReStack family. At the table there is a teenager and an older woman who is bent over with her hand outstretched towards the ground. Food sits obedient while objects, colors clutter the ground. A spill occurs.
What is wrong with this woman who is responsible for the family? Why is she dripping and folded while her children carry on with their meal; oblivious?
DANI AND SHEILAH RESTACK have embarked on an artistic relationship that is formally and emotionally adjacent to their domestic lives, a quotidian zone they share with their young daughter[s] Rose, [and Sky]. Both artists have established careers on their own. Neither Dani’s video work or Sheilah’s multimedia performance and installation work could exactly prepare us for the force of the women’s collaborative efforts. – Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope, 2017.
Shameless Light is an ongoing performance that invites LGBTQIA+ and non-binary people to read love letters they have written under red neon lights. Shameless Light begun in 2016, in Carrizzozo, New Mexico after the US election. At that moment in United States politics, we were reeling - trying to find a way to fight back against intolerance and fear.
ReStack collaborations have shown at the Camden Arts Centre, London, UK; 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York, NY; Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL; Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada; Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada; Leslie Lohman Project Space, New York, NY; Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA; New York Film Festival, New York, NY; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Camden Arts Centre, London; Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, among others. They have received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, UnionDocs NYC and Visual Studies Workshop. They have been residents at the Headlands, Visual Studies Workshop and MacDowell. They have created the Feral Domestic trilogy from 2017-2021 (Strangely Ordinary This Devotion, Come Coyote and Future From Inside) and published an accompanying text with Visual Studies Workshop in 2022. In 2024 the ReStack’s work will be featured in exhibitions at the Inter Media Art Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany, Curated by Nele Kazmareck; The Blue Building Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
