"People have done a lot of great work on the war, but I think the more intimate you get, the closer it comes to you."
Eugene Richards

Guillaume Simoneau has always fostered a deep fascination for change; his practice results precisely from this obsession. With Love and War, he enters for the first time the transitory space of a single individual. This new approach allowed him to create a study even more visceral and personal than usual. For several years, Simoneau instinctively and sporadically documented the complexity of a young US army sergeant veteran's love life; before, during and after her deployment to Iraq. Today, this study has become an investigative document; a research piecing back together the emotional fabric of a conflict ridden subject. Love and War is the lyrical synthesis of all the narrative fragments the artist collected while hanging around Caroline Annandale between the ages of 16 and 25.

Image:
Guillaume Simoneau, Canadian Marine jacket, Georgia, 2008, c-print, 1/6, 24 x 30 cm