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Programmation / 2008
DOUBLING
Josée Dubeau
September 10 - October 26, 2008
Opening: Wednesday September 10, 6 - 8 pm
My project centres on the space we inhabit and transform. In this world of levels and lines, I let myself be guided by the functions of our organisation of space, be they drive-through ATM machines, cookie-cutter shopping malls with parking for 20,000 cars, the fast-food chains and gas stations along our highways, multiplex cinemas or office cubicles all in a line.
A stranger to this reality, I constantly withdraw from this world that is offered to me. In the comfort of models of spatial organisation I construct my relations with others and with the environment.
My installations made out of wooden rods draw on a variety of activities that set us apart individually and collectively to recreate environments that bring out the nomenclature of the architecture. They reproduce reality with the geometrical regularity of a three-dimensional vectorial drawing. In the absence of surface and volume, the space being mimicked appears in its fragile transparency: the absence of colour and texture leads us to believe, from an existential point of view, in the conception of a detached and unattached world, like that of a scale model.
BIOGRAPHY
Josée Dubeau obtained a master’s degree from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1994. Her works develops out of residencies and exhibitions in Canada and abroad at such places as the Christoph Merian Foundation’s studio in Basel (1998), the Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia (2002-03) and the studio for Quebec artists in Berlin at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2004-05). The most recent exhibitions of her work in 2008 were held at 3e impérial in Granby and at the Biennale de sculpture in Trois-Rivières. She teaches drawing and sculpture at the Université du Québec en Outaouais and the University of Ottawa. Josée Dubeau lives and works in the Outaouais region.
www.joseedubeau.com
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