INSTALLATIONS
PROGRAM BY CÉCILE MARTIN : HORIZONS
Work presented at Galerie Art-Mûr
(5826, rue Saint Hubert)
Tue/Wed 10:00-18:00, Thu-Fri 12:00-20:00, Sat 12:00-17:00
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Eric
Raymond
Linescape
Installation, 2003-2004, Québec
Eric Raymond has been active in the field of
electronic arts for over ten years. He has regularly
exhibited on the national and international
scene notably at the Absolut L.A. International
Biennial Art Invitational (Los Angeles, U.S.A.),
at Ars Electronica (Linz, Autriche), L.A.Freewave
(Los Angeles U.S.A.), Artcore Gallery (Toronto)
as well as Dazibao (Montréal). He occasionally
writes for the contemporary art journal Parachute
and he teaches at the Viusal and Media Arts
school at the Université du Québec
à Montréal.
www.eric-raymond.com/linescape
My works question the origin of images. The
precarious evanescence of the electronic signal
evokes the genesis of visual and mental representations.
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Patrick
Bérubé
FANTASMAGORIE PLUS OU MOINS FACTICE
installation
Originally from the Low St. Lawrence, Patrick Bérubé
lives and works in Montreal. His practice is primarily
in installation and in situ interventions. Resorting
readily to photography and video, he does not cease
to draw from his life as it comes; mixed complication
of more or less controllable realities, filled of
contradictions and contrarieties. Thus playing on
the disappointment and the powerlessness of the spectator,
he tries to imprison us with our own anticipations
and our frustrations to extract from it the frightful
and mysterious part. He has presented his works in
Quebec and Mexico and they will also be presented
in Argentina soon.
On the basis of the idea that everything visible can
comprise a hidden or invisible side, the installation
which I propose is at the same time unreal and material.
It reveals as much as it dissimulates, it stimulates,
but also disappoints. Paradoxically, this alienation
makes it possible to trigger a desire in the spectator
and, by the same token, to create a lack. The most
common thing, as soon as it is hidden becomes a delight.
Being as much capable of abolishing pleasure as to
cause it, I try to thwart the spectators’ expectations.
The construction of the space offers to the visitor
various proposals suggesting various impalpable realities
to him. This fragmentation of the site wills not only
to increase the surprise, but to also break up the
usual design of the linearity of the world. The ambiguïty
of the images makes it possible to surprise the spectator
and to confer an unexpected dimension to them.
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César Saëz
Une autre planète
projection vidéo au métro Rosemont
César Saëz is an interdisciplinary artist who manifests by in situ installations and interventions in public spaces and times. He lives and works in Montreal and has also carried out projects in Pancevo (Serbia), St-Hyacinth, Helsinki, Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, Mexico City, New York, Granby and Port-with-Prince.
The image is that of a traditional landscape of the desert evening, drawn from the North-American collective imaginary. The video, at the same time static and moving, is an allegory of an imaginary world, a different environment, a parallel situation, another dimension, another space, another time. |
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