[BCMA] [media release] Installation based on Caetani Family at Vernon Museum

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March 17, 2016



*Public Service Announcement*

*For Immediate Release*





*Unique Collaboration between the Vernon & District Museum & Archives and
the Caetani Centre:*





*UK artist Rebecca Key creates installation based on Caetani artifacts and
story *

*Reception and Conversation with the Artist: Thursday, March 24, 7 – 9 pm*

At the Greater Vernon Museum and Archives

3009 – 32nd Avenue, Vernon

Telephone: 250-542-3142

*E-MAIL:* ed at caetani.ca



Rebecca Key is an artist based in the North West of the United Kingdom. She
has exhibited internationally, and also worked as an art director in the
film and television industry. Key uses objects to examine the relationship
between artist and gallery space. She uses set dressing to explore myths
that surrounds the creative process within the institution, and other
specific sites.

Key is in Vernon for a unique Caetani Centre residency in collaboration
with the Vernon Museum during the month of March. Key has undertaken
extensive research on Vernon’s Caetani family, as well as with archival
material and objects from the Caetani family, located in the Vernon Museum,
and the installation will also include her own photographs taken in
response to her own research on the enigmatic and mysterious Caetani
family.

Key’s area of concentration has been the time period following the death of
Sveva Caetani’s father, Leone, in 1934, to the death of her mother, Ofelia,
in 1960. As many local residents are aware, this was the period of time
that the young Sveva was kept a virtual prisoner in her own home, for
approximately 25 years, not allowed out of her house for the first three
years, and restricted to the grounds and short excursions into town for the
remainder. Sveva was encouraged to read, but vehemently denied the freedom
to write, draw or paint. Following her mother’s death, she was to emerge
into the community, eventually able to obtain her teaching certificate from
the University of Victoria, and returned to the North Okanagan to become a
respected teacher, mentor, artist and writer for many years before her own
death in 1994.

Rebecca's investigation focuses on this 25 year period of Sveva's
life, using archival objects and new visual metaphors to illustrate the
relationship between this mother and daughter, and the dynamic similitude
of love and control, isolation and suffocation.

Key says about her residency: “Reading texts by Heidi Thompson and Karen
Avery offer exceptional insight. I am pleased to be able to stay in the
house where she (Sveva) and her mother (Ofelia) spent the many years
following the death of her father. This will be a great piece of work to
engage dialogue with all ranges of people, to talk about the life of such a
unique and generous woman.”

In a review by The Washington Post, they wrote about Rebecca Key’s previous
work:

"*Once we're familiar with a place, we almost always tune it out. Key jolts
us awake by making the familiar strange. For a moment, at least, we're
aware of what surrounds us*."

The public is invited to attend a reception and conversation with the
artist on Thursday March 24th, beginning at 7pm at the Vernon Museum, where
Rebecca will give short introduction to the work and will answer questions
about the installation, her research and the Caetani family, along with
Caetani Centre's executive director Susan Brandoli.



Rebecca's residency is funded by Arts Council England, and she is currently
studying a practice-based PhD at the Art & Design Research Institute at
Middlesex University, London, financially supported by the BBC Grace
Wyndham Goldie Trust and The Snowdon Trust.

For more information please visit our website http://www.caetani.ca



CONTACT INFO:



For more information please contact:

Caetani Centre – 250-275-1525

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