Thursday, August 30, 2007

Solo Exhibit at Lac Lemay's Casino, Gatineau






Album photos

To come in march 2008:
Solo Exhibit, Promenade du Roi, Casino du Lac Lemay, Gatineau, Québec

This exhibit will be the result of an artistic research around light and shadows.
Using my extensive background in shadow theater, I explored the amalgam of different textures, using plastic trans lucid sheets of mylar, which I painted with layers of transparent oil paint. Behind this where suspended other layers of paper cuts. The installation was then lighted with several halogen lamps in order to duplicates shadows projection.

Those precarious installations could not be directly show in the art Gallery due to space issues. I decided then to photograph the result of multiple projections on screen. The mystery of the photographic images will invite the public to ask some "how to" questions, to which I will try to answer with documentation on site.

Through those images, I have explored the women intimacy regarding emotions of sadness, angriness, pain and solitude. States of mind often referred to as taboo.

A poetic contrast between blackness and joy, laugh and drama. Colors represented as a shadow's figure of speech.

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