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17, 2016</span></p>
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Immediate Release</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a name="OLE_LINK11"></a><a name="OLE_LINK10"></a><a name="OLE_LINK9"></a><a name="OLE_LINK6"></a><a name="OLE_LINK5"></a><a name="OLE_LINK4"></a><a name="OLE_LINK3"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Unique Collaboration between the Vernon & District
Museum & Archives and the Caetani Centre:</span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a name="OLE_LINK1"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">UK artist Rebecca Key creates installation based on Caetani
artifacts and story<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Reception and Conversation with the Artist:
Thursday, March 24, 7 – 9 pm</span></b></p>
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Vernon Museum and Archives</span></p>
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Avenue, Vernon</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="OLE_LINK8"></a><a name="OLE_LINK7"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Rebecca Key </span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Key
uses objects to examine the relationship between artist and gallery space. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">She uses set dressing to
explore myths that surrounds the creative process within the institution, and
other specific sites.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">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. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Sveva was encouraged to read,
but vehemently denied the freedom to write, draw or paint. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Key says
about her residency: “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">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.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">In a review by The Washington Post,
they wrote about Rebecca Key’s previous work:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">"<i>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</i>."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The public
is invited to attend a reception and conversation with the artist on Thursday
March 24<sup>th</sup>, 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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.45pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">For<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> more </span>information<span style="letter-spacing:0.6pt"> </span>please<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>visit our
website </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.caetani.ca"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">http://www.caetani.ca</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">CON<span style="letter-spacing:-0.8pt">T</span>ACT<span style="letter-spacing:0.45pt"> </span>INFO:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">For
more information please contact:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Caetani Centre – 250-275-1525</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Photo attached: Caetani Centre artist in residence Rebecca Key conducting research on the Caetani family at the Vernon Museum</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><br></span></p>
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