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mécanismes d’intérieurs
Manon Labrecque
mécanismes d’intérieurs is a touring exhibition of the Conseil des
arts de Montréal en tournée, created and produced by Dazibao.
Coming near you, from September 2009 !
Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
September 3 to October 18, 2009
Maison de la culture Mercier
March 6 to April 11, 2010
Salle de diffusion Parc-Extension
May 13 to June 13, 2010
For the exhibition mécanismes d'intérieurs, Manon Labrecque, with all the ingenuity she is known for, creates states of mind and gives rise to troubling inner sensations through the invention of her own mechanisms for shooting video footage, which she links to simple actions of the body.
In an installation entitled mécaniques affectives, which combines sound and four simultaneous projections, Manon Labrecque explores movement and fixity by means of video images whose motorised shooting mechanisms of her own design make possible self-shoots which interact directly with the artist’s body. In these short films, the subject is immobile or carrying out minor and sometimes repetitive actions which appear to respond to or even enter into dialogue with the object recording her image. With this work, Manon Labrecque has created a mechanised psychic world summoning up strange affects.
Two other works complete the exhibition: s’arranger l’portrait and les solitudes. s’arranger l’portrait consists of several physical variations on the theme of the portrait and the fixed -yet absent! -image. It highlights the difficulty in stopping on an image and of providing a fixed image of oneself, demonstrating both our ambivalence towards our own representation and the paradox between the photographic image and the moving image. les solitudes, for its part, plays with fixity in a completely different manner. Its movement, although highly significant, is intercepted, and only a few fractions of a second remain to upset the meaning and emotional charge of the images.
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Manon Labrecque lives and works in Montreal. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is well known both within Quebec and abroad. Her work in video uses performative action to create experimental videos and installations and has recently been included in several major exhibitions in Quebec, including Intrus/Intruders at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and La Triennale québécoise—Rien ne se perd, rien ne se crée, tout se transforme at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
Manon Labrecque thanks the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Dazibao thanks the artist and the Festival du nouveau cinéma for their generous collaboration, as well as its members for their support. Dazibao receives financial assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Conseil des arts de Montréal. Dazibao is a member of the Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec. |
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