A three-part exhibition with a common theme, water may it be absent, lost or stagnant.
Cascade
In this silk-screen installation, the artist reinterprets the movement of water, through the use of an image extracted from a documentary video and immobilized on wooden panels. These static images, assembled as in a cascade under lighting, seem to compose an ideal environment for stagnation.
Cyano bactéries
Through an assembly of giant water bottles, empty and made by hand, the artist amplifies the presence of water through its absence. Do the blue algae printed on the bottles suggest a shortage of potable water and its eventual disappearance?
500 ml en transit
In a video montage, thirty empty water bottles roll about in cadences like waves on the floor of a subway car. They roll where they may, between the camera lens, the seats and the passengers’ feet. Do they evoke our lack of concern for water, or perhaps our neglect? With a bit of humour and a touch of aesthetics, the artist reminds us that our stewardship of water is an urgent matter.
Nadine Bariteau
Born and raised in Montréal, Nadine Bariteau is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in printmaking, sculpture, installation and video performance. Her works are studies of permanence and ephemerality in the interplay between human-made and natural environments. She is a graduate of Concordia University in Montréal and obtained her Masters of Fine Arts at York University in Toronto. Bariteau has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work can be seen in private and public collections including Foreign Affairs Canada and the National Library of Québec. Nadine has been living in Toronto for the past ten years and teaches printmaking at the Ontario College of Art and Design University.
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