A-B | Jérôme Nadeau

In the exhibition A-B, Jérôme Nadeau explores the creative process of photography.The artist draws from various analogical methods of the darkroom such as the photogram, the chemigram and the Cliché Verre, and externalizes what usually remains invisible. In using such methods, Jérôme Nadeau complicates the mechanism of reproduction of the photographic medium and heightens the tension between image and material.The works shorten the distance between those two by revealing the analogue process through the subject matter. The works by Jérôme Nadeau confront the viewer to look at what is photography rather than looking through it. His photographs do not appear as windows onto a reality, but as reality themselves.

Jérôme Nadeau is an artist, curator and editor living and working in Montreal. He recently completed a BFA in Photography at Concordia University. His work was featured in several group shows in galleries such as the Galerie Louise-Carrier, Push Gallery, FOFA Gallery, Les Territoires, the Société des Arts Technologiques, Espaces Jean-Brillant and the artist-run center Eastern Bloc.

Jérôme Nadeau participates in our MAPPE program. This program supports emergent artists with the direction of their artistic careers through providing exhibitions, career management, and further dissemination of their work to the public and throughout the media.

Image:
Untitled #2, from the series séries Your Eyes Used to Call Me Liar, photographic print on fiber paper, 8 x 10 in, 2010

Livre de foie | Céline Huyghebaert

Céline Huyghebaert studies the mark for its potential for effacement as well as for material survival. By means of writing, drawing and silkscreen printing, the artist reflects on these traces and their imprint on the present in the form of affects.The exhibit Livre de Foie (Liver Book) questions the notion of identity tied to the materiality of the organic body.Through a series of prints, combining text and image where drawings on transparencies, China ink and silkscreen printing are superimposed, the artist invites the viewer to follow the protagonist through a search for her history. Livre de Foie is inscribed in a larger project by the artist that attempts to rebuild minute markers which make the memory,while also reflecting on the manner in which these markers wind around the present time to create a complex and hybrid time.

Céline Huyghebaert couples writing with techniques such as drawing and silkscreen printing to create a dialogue between text and image in zines and artist books which have been presented at Expozine. She has also published short stories in collective books and in several magazines such as Moebius and Le Chameau,as well as articles and essays in several art magazines.As part of her PHD in études et pratiques des arts at Université du Québec à Montréal, she focuses on artist books and installations as places where the material memory of death is recorded. From March 17th to April 22nd, she is participating at the Biennale du Livre d'artistes du Quai de la Batterie in Arras (France).

Céline Huyghebaert participates in our MAPPE program. This program supports emergent artists with the direction of their artistic careers through providing exhibitions, career management, and further dissemination of their work to the public and throughout the media.

Image: Pas dans la maison, screenprinting on paper, 20 x 14 in, 2011