Intimacy is the focus of this group exhibition by six students finishing their undergraduate degrees at UQAM's École des arts visuels et médiatiques. Through their various processes, the artists attempt to extract intimacy from an internal and personal space in order to project it outward.
The body becomes the vehicle of erotic or performative expression, leaving traces or mourning loss. The artists try to grasp, define and chart the interiority of intimacy. In the manner of a seismometer, Alice Collombon draws or marks on paper the spatiotemporal experience of her body while moving through environments. Kristofer Dompierre pushes his portrait paintings to the limits, as he does with his own body. His work explores the muted violence of loss. In her installation, Sarai Guerra Cruz charts interiority so as to inevitably present subtle clues about the experience of mourning in daily life. Seonjeong Kim's felt pen explores unconscious doodling and her fascination for the line, drawing the outlines of emotions in random narratives. Laurence Malette paints the snapshots of everyday life, and shows us the paradox hidden under the seemingly ordinary. In the paintings of Jonathan Sardelis, a new intimacy surfaces from multiple bodies stripped of their identity, unified as messenger angels on the canvas. The promising work of this new generation of artists is presented at the POPOP gallery, a new rental space in the Belgo building. |