Jocelyne Alloucherie: Dédale
Yann Pocreau: Projections
October 17–December 8, 2013
Opening: Thursday October 17, 5pm
Darling Foundry
745, Ottawa Street, Old Montreal
Hours: Wednesday–Sunday noon–7pm;
Thursday noon–10pm
info [at] fonderiedarling.org
Jocelyne Alloucherie (Montreal)
Dédale
Curator: Sylvain Campeau
“It seems to me that light needs the obstacle of a voluminous object to create an image, and that this essential shadow is all the more necessary for sculpture, whose forms could not be revealed without this caress of light that fashions it. It is thus on this signifying ground of shadow that sculpture and photograph come to meet. Dédale represents one more step in this direction. All the more so as Jocelyne Alloucherie is trying her hand at a medium that is new for her: video. It is to the alleyway that she devotes her full attention. She continues there the work she began with cut-outs of trees, and then of urban constructions, that she has exploited before (Les Occidents, 2005). Alleyways, lanes, callejones form the backbone of our cities’ architectural constructions. They are the backgrounds, the back-yards, the foundations of our urban organization. It is by way of these that certain services that are essential to life can be provided to the citizens. At this level, they have however become more or less obsolete. They are no longer used for garbage collection and electric wires hardly hang there anymore. But they have remained as a relic of architectural and urban organization.”
–Sylvain Campeau
Yann Pocreau (Montreal)
Projections
For the first time of his career, it is not his own photos Yann Pocreau is showing under the heading of Projections at the Darling Foundry, having chosen instead to draw from the iconography of his personal album a collection of antique postcards of French Gothic churches to realize the three works of this exhibition. The aging 1930s reproductions of the Saint-Laurent, Saint-Étienne-du-Mont and de la Trinité churches, the Sainte-Croix cathedral and the Sainte Chapelle are manipulated, staged, pierced, scratched, to allow the appearance of this divine light, sought after by religious architecture and here created artificially. These images are produced by way of different mediums—installation, bas-relief and film—with which the artist experiments in a “quest to throw light on the photographic object,” in his own words. In Projections, religious architecture and photography intersect to bring to light their common uses, namely sublimation and staging, illusion and dramatization.
Meetings
Two series of artist presentations are scheduled for the fall:
–Lucie Le Boudeur (France) and Jürg Stäuble (Switzerland) on November 21, 6pm
–Mary Teague (Australia) and Guillaume Gattier (France) on December 5, 6pm
New publication
Following the exhibition In Union presented by the Darling Foundry this spring, artist Milutin Gubash is publishing this fall his first monographic catalogue, a survey of ten years of his career. This 200-page book shows works from the last ten years, with critical texts by Sylvain Campeau, Sandra Dyck, Annie Gauthier, Katarina Gubash, Marie-Claude Landry, Shirley Madill, Crystal Mowry and Mathilde Roman.
