nine one one

Arianne Pollet-Brannen displays reclaimed, renovated and re-imagined scraps from stories that unfolded in the QE2 hospital's emergency communications hub at this show of "gloves and isolation gowns, tourniquets and sutures...complimented by pencil portraits of department personnel, reproduced and toner transferred to hospital bed sheets." As her artist's statement summates it, "Art does indeed matter, and will have its effect, especially for those working within the confines of an emergency department where tragedy, immediacy and urgency are part of the full operation of everyday life."