The Tongue of Shadows
Curated by
Gilles Daigneault
September 12 - October 18 2008
Opening ReceptionFriday, September 12, 5 - 8 pm
artist talk @ 6 pm
There are certain avenues of connection to explore between the works of the three Quebec artists of The Tongue of Shadows. For example, their embodied visions of sculpture in which conceptual premises and intuition are constantly nourished by the work in process. For these three artists, the utilization and exploration of materials is an imperative step toward meaning. These artists rely on an adventurous approach, which stimulates and tests their production methods to empower the space and language. These methods rely on simple techniques, light technologies, and humble materials used out of their usual context, often magnified by the assemblage or the transformation process. For Catherine Bolduc, Danielle Sauvé, and Louise Viger, it is when these material choices meet language that momentum is given to the work: a trajectory develops in the physical space and in mental constructions that the spectator is invited to discover.
In this exhibition, the artists are more specifically interested by those strange doubles of life that are shadows. Facing those shadows raises contradictory impressions: not only the one of a mirrored object but also the image and its double, derisory and fragile.
-Louise Viger and Danielle Sauvé, 2008
Featured Artists
Catherine BolducDanielle Sauvé
Louise Viger