The landscapes we believe to be permanent can sometimes transform to the point where certain world representations vanish. Inlandsis, la disparition d'un imaginaire deals with this shift. Using installations made with printed and folded paper, as well as moving drawings projected onto crumpled paper structures, the artist places the viewer in a space between real landscape and its imagined transposition.
This exhibition offers various interpretative routes through undulating shapes and lines, and instigates interrelations between space, object and the viewer. The folds and strokes change our relation with the surface, which becomes transmogrified, much like an interface which offers the possibility of various modelisations. Hence, the idea of nature is decontextualized, fragmented, geometrized. The installation can be perceived as a perceptual and building process, evoking the modeling of an abstract space inspired by territorial transformations.

Biography

Andrée-Anne Dupuis Bourret is currently completing her master's degree in visual and media arts at Université du Québec à Montréal. Her work has been shown in several solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States, namely at the Crane Arts Building in Philadelphia as part of Philgrafika 2010 and at Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec for Graphzines. She also created thirty artist books which have been shown and collected in Canada and abroad, most notably by Berkley University of California, the VCU and the Art Institute of Chicago. President of the board of directors at Atelier Graff in Montreal, she is also a member of Grupmuv, a research and creation lab at UQAM for drawing and images in motion, and the instigator of two research blogs: Le cahier virtuel and Le territoire des sens.