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Ciel variable 128 | Dépaysement
Featuring a portfolio and the review of the show “Here”
Essay written by Gabrielle Sarthou
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2024 Here, Dazibao, Montéal, QC, Canada (solo)
2019 Apparitions of Collective Disposition, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada (solo)
2018 The Long Moment, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montréal, QC, Canada
2015 Genealogy of Stationary Objects, FoFA Gallery, Montréal, QC, Canada (solo)
2015 Obang, Maison de la culture frontenac, Montréal, QC, Canada
2015 Après le pont où se rencontrent les rivières, VU Photo, Québec City, QC, Canada (solo)
2014 Ignition 12, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal, QC, Canada
In this wall of photographs presented as a constellation, I showcase images that are both old and new, taken over the span of ten years. Drawing from personal archives and reviving the habit of capturing ordinary moments in the places where I resided at different times, the work is a collection of photographs that explore the paradoxical nature of the concept of "here" for someone who comes from "elsewhere." "Here" is a fluid, shifting place—one that is reached and felt, whether visible or invisible. This work seeks to touch on ideas of distance, movement, and the concrete physical environments that envelop people. By focusing on personal relationships and narratives, the work becomes a portrait of a family whose sense of place feels fluid and malleable.
exceprts of the images
Trees on the Move 2019
2 Inkjet prints
30”x40”(left) x 40”x50”(right), framed
These photographs were taken during the preparation for the demolition of neighborhoods in Seoul, consisting of large scale apartment complexes from the 1980s. There were efforts made to save some of th trees by uprooting them for transplantation elsewhere. This process involves relocating the trees to temporary locations where they will be "stored" (if they survive th transplantation) before being planted on a "permanent" place. After their root systems are severed, the trees are bound with strings to surrounding structures and trees to distribute their weight, preventing the uprooted specimen from falling.
Acknowldegement
Financial Support by Concordia University Part-Time Faculty AssociationProduction Support by Concordia University Fine Arts Facilities
Drystone cast and pedestal
Using drystone as a casting medium, this sculpture was created from making silicone moulds of discarde furniture found around Montréal. Transforming the materiality of used furniture into a type of plaster, the sculpture appears as a representation of phantom-like presence of those objects that are destined to disappear from domestic and public sights. The process of mould-making serves as creation of negative, which implies the possibility of the positive casts to exist in multiples.
Production Assistant : Geneviève Dagenais
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Documentation credit: Matthieu Brouillard 
