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EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING - CURRENT - ARTIST TALK - PAST
COMME UNE CHORALE DANS LA VOIX (ou quelque chose comme ça)
Véronique Béland
September 23rd to October 9th, 2010
Vernissage: Thursday, September 23rd, 2010, 5 to 7 pm
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L’inventaire du visible (2010) – Véronique Béland has traveled up and down the horizon of her everyday life armed with a voice recorder and a pinhole camera. She recorded her voice describing places, with the shutter remaining open for the duration of her speech. Exposure time equals to speech time, always: the image is modified by the story. She has spoken her presence in the landscape until all image was lost. One just needs to hear the sound track to mentally reconstruct the ruins left by the photographic marks, to make a projection area of them. Se faire du cinéma: to fantasize.
Comme une chorale de voix dans la tête (2010) – A desire to transpose a constant state of intersubjectivity. An attempt to externalize all the others who inhabit the space of my thoughts. A sound set-up combining multiple voices, spatialized around the spectator: voices that blend in almost perfect synchronism at times, but sometimes muddle up in confused murmurs. In a scheme of references, they even answer, complete each other. But most of the time, they do not listen, they soliloquy. They think loudly, lowly.
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Véronique Béland currently lives in Montreal, where she is completing a master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts at the UQÀM. Since 2005, her work has been exposed at individual and collective exhibitions in Canada and France. She has taken part in various international video programs, namely in Stuttgart, Germany and in Lisbon, Portugal. In Fall 2010, she will undertake a residency at the Studio national des arts contemporains Le Fresnoy, in Lille, France. Over the past years, she has received several awards for academic excellence and a grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Multidisciplinary artist, she focuses primarily on materializing textual forms in visual creation. Her work highlights our numerous ways of dealing with memories and tries to understand the identity construction that they bring about. She thus examines the gap between the ordinary and the singular, between the self and the other.
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This research project has been supported by the Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada
and by the Fond de recherche sur la société et la culture du Québec.
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www.veroniquebeland.com
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