jusqu'au 14 février | until February 14
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ANDRÉE LEDUC

DINAO MACCORMICK

HÉLÈNE JUILLET - KATHERINE PICKERING
Pickering, a Concordia MFA graduate and the recipient of the J.W. McConnell Memorial Graduate Fellowship (2007), creates atmospheric compositions that chronicle her navigation through light and shadow visible at night. Based on recollection and captured images, Pickering morphs hidden objects into seductive shapes and affective colours.
MacCormick recently completed a self-directed residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her work in residency at Studio Béluga has been the completion of several larger than life-sized portraits – an examination of personal memories of the childhood self as projected through family snapshots. The piercing gazes of MacCormick’s younger selves acknowledge the camera lens, now substituted by the viewer.
Leduc, published in Harroswmith’s Truly Canadian Almanac (2008) and represented by Ottawa’s La Petite Morte gallery, has produced large-scale paintings that divorce the present from historic reality. Her brightly-coloured rendering of a topless Vladimir Putin brings to the fore the media’s construction of politicians as mythological figures, ready to become metaphors of their country.
Juillet, recently graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (Paris), constructs sculptures based on geometric compositions. The use of line through wooden beams, and shading through paper appliqué, play with the viewer’s optics. Juillet provokes the viewer into a contemplation of the contours of architectural configurations, and the interior spaces created through them.