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BOXOlivia BoudreauFor the Nuit blanche à Montréal of the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival, the opening will take place on February 27 at 6 p.m. in the presence of the artist. The evening will go on until 2 a.m. The gallery is open from Tuesday to Saturday, from noon to 5 p.m.
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Olivia Boudreau creates an intimate interchange in her work between representation and the viewer in order to put their perception of time to test, in time. The moving images Boudreau uses, despite essentially being based in their form on photographic principles such as composition, light, colour and an attention to framing, push the sensation and unfolding of duration to its paroxysm. Her images, with their exacerbated inertia, enquire not only into our relationship to time but also, more subtly, into the body’s experience and its intimate depiction in images which has an animal-like quality that is not without eroticism. This exhibition presents two long-lasting video works. For Box, Olivia Boudreau filmed 23 hours in a stall. In La Levée, we make out in the darkness the bottom moulding of a wall and a pair of legs, along which slide a woman’s panties. Each of the boxes in the present exhibition reveals a creature out of which develop prolific imaginary connections: a horse, a young woman. Between these works and their viewer arises a game, a movement between what is shown and is not, between the powerful symbolic charge of the image and the impossibility of grasping it completely while the image lasts. It is in this hollow space, in this state of latency, that the viewer fashions his or her own cinema. |