Programming

May 12 — June 15, 2000

Yvonne St-Onge

Paysage temporel

Exhibition

In this exhibition, the artist works with the temporal properties of the photographic medium with a conceptual and visual approach. She edifies ceremoniously her personal sanctuary through a renewing ritual.

The installation consists of six large scale photographic pieces reproduced on a muslin drapery stretched over a metal frame. When exposed to light, the muslin which has been induced with a pigmented emulsion picks up the image from the negative apposed to it. Like the negative leaving its trace on the material, the images represent the passage of life and time on our bodies. This exhibition transmits the evolution of a study on an essential element of photography: the capture of an ephemeral moment.