This work is part of the "Rodin Reworked" series. This series builds upon Hannah’s interest in the French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s (1840-1917) oeuvre in relation to the interplay between sculpture and the human body, and the ways in which we interact with art. Rodin was an avid collector of photographs, often drawing and painting on top of images of his own work. […] Just as Rodin used other people’s photographs to imagine other ways his sculptures could be viewed Adad Hannah uses photographs and videos of Rodin’s sculptures to imagine other ways of viewing them - changed contexts, forms, and colours. By printing images on canvas and painting over them, Hannah emphasizes how light and colour alter our perception of sculpture while exploring the distinctions between the symbolic presence of a sculpture and the organic physicality of the human body. These works also focus on the connection between the past and the present - mediating a conversation between Rodin’s 19th century sculptures and current photographic and mark-making practices.


Born in New York in 1971, Adad Hannah lives and works in Vancouver. He has exhibited, among others, at the BIAN International Digital Art Biennial (Montreal, 2024), Prague Biennial 5 (Prague, 2011), the 5th International Video Art Biennial (Israel, 2011), the 4th Biennal de Montevideo (Montevideo, 2019), the 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (2006), Casa Encendida (Madrid, 2006), Viper Basel (2004), as well as at numerous Canadian and international museums. He has received many awards, such as the Toronto Images Festival Installation/New Media Award (2004), the Bogdanka Poznanovic Award at Videomedeja International Festival (2004), and the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award (2009). His works have been produced at museums including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Rodin Gallery (Seoul), the Remai Modern (Saskatoon), and the Prado Museum (Madrid). Hannah’s work can be found in numerous collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, the Musée Rodin (Paris), the Ke Center for Contemporary Art (Shanghai), the Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw), the Audain Art Museum (Whistler), and the Museo Tamayo (Mexico City).