Curator and artist : Élène Tremblay
Artists : Marcio Lana Lopez, Maryse Larivière, Nadine Norman, James Prior
Production - residencies : Spring 2006 – Winter 2007
The web lends easily itself to the constructed identity and brings up many questions as to what is real or false in the information brought by the people who stage it: the web has become a relational tool where individuals try to enter in closer relation.
In continuity with our preceding projects approaching the concept of community, and more particularly with Who is...? which includes an interactive module where the Net surfers can build a portrait according to a determined syntax, this new project will join works where these questions will be able to be brought up.
The curator has invited four artists who have developed fictitious identities in their practices to create works where these probable identities could spread. The Net surfers will be invited to discover them, to witness fragments of their life and to enter in relation to a context where a certain doubt might arise as per the existence of the characters.
Crime Scenes, détail d’installation, |
Marcio Lana Lopez
La démarche de cet artiste indisciplinaire est axée sur les rapports entre l'investigation philosophique, la culture pop et le quotidien. La fiction référentielle, l'auto-représentation, l’humour, la dérision, l’ironie, la logique floue et un regard dystopique par rapport au monde, à ses institutions et conventions sociales.
Him & I, (Toronto), |
Maryse Larivière
Young photographer, and member of the collective Pavillion, the artist carried out several projects in the mode of the autofiction. During its photographic exhibiition at Skol gallery, Montreal, in 2003, she staged her love relationship with an absent man: showing herself as a dreamer, sad or nostalgic, in various environments related to her personal history (streets of New York, beaches, hotel rooms).
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Nadine Norman
For over ten years, the artist has realized multimedia projects involving interaction with the public. Playing with the codes and common ideas about female identity, she has worked with the themes and images of prostitution, sex workers, meeting clubs and the questions of desire and communication. Among her exhibitions of note: I am available and you?, Museum of contemporary art, Montreal, 2003-2003 (www.jesuisdisponibleetvous.com), Callgirl, Canadian Arts Centre, Paris 2000, and Darlings , Fonderie Darling, Montreal, 1997.
Untitled, from the series |
James Prior
Son travail photographique a été remarqué lors de ses expositions récentes à Skol (Montréal), Vu (Quebec) et Gallery 44 (Toronto). L’artiste crée des pseudo-documentaires non sans humour où il se met lui-même en scène dans diverses fictions autour de clichés, tabous liés à l’identité masculine. Ainsi dans James Pierre and Pom Pom, two hearts beat as one (2002), il présente le quotidien d’un homme pathétiquement solitaire vivant avec son chat. Dans Fishing with John James (2004) sont mises en scène les histoires fictives de pêche vécues sur cinquante ans par deux hommes.
Élène Tremblay
Member of the Board of Directors of Agence TOPO, she is an independent artist-photographer. She has been an independant curator since 1998 to 2002, during which she directed the gallery Vox, an artist-run center dedicated to photography. She was member of the organizing committee of Le Mois de la Photo in Montreal in 1999 and curator of many photographic and new media exhibitions. As a photographer, her work is regularly presented in Canada and abroad. As well, since 1996, she has created four works for the Web. She holds a Master in Visual Arts, Photography from Concordia University (1996) and is currently conducting a Doctorate in Études et pratiques des arts at Uqam.