there’s a place on my back that isn’t there
[nggallery id=25] 2005 nylon stretch cord, steel cables, plywood and steel mounting structure: 126 x 60 x 84 in / 315 x 150 x 210 cm Elastic cord is woven between steel cables, creating a space large enough for a person to enter and be supported, leaning into the webbed threads. The cables trace a “constellation” of skin on the artist's back. [See Out here in space, 2005.] connective tissue, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal (2005) Search for Parallax (based on a constellation related to gallery site), Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto (2008)
Out Here in Space
[nggallery id=35] 2005 6 lambda prints on aluminum, 16 x 20 in to 26 x 48 in / 40 x 50 cm to 90 x 120 cm Treated as negative film in an otherwise film-less process, the skin of the artist's back takes on the transparency of endless distance. Out Here in Space, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2005) Circling the Inverse Square, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario (2013; Curator: Shannon Anderson)
Untitled (invisible thread)
[nggallery id=38] 2003-2004 nylon thread, size varies Fine nylon ( "invisible") thread is looped in and out of itself into an apparent tangle and suspended in a daylit room. The room at first appears to be empty, the mass of lines being only perceptible from certain vantage points. many things were left unsaid, Gairloch Gallery of Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada (2003) Avancer dans le brouillard, Musée National des beaux-arts du Quebec, QC (2004 collection: Musée National des beaux-arts du Quebec, QC, 2005
many things were left unsaid
[nggallery id=36] 2003-2004 transparent vinyl lettering on white walls The unspoken thoughts of characters in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse are produced in transparent vinyl and placed on white walls where the constantly shifting daylight makes them difficult to read, at times invisible. The installation was conceived for the lakeside Gairloch Gallery, a setting like the summer home in the novel. When adapted for the Musée du Québec, French translations by Marguerite de Youcenar were interspersed with the original English text. many things were left unsaid, Gairloch Gallery of Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada (2003) Avancer dans le brouillard, Musée National des [...]