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Les Territoires est une galerie à but non lucratif qui accueille des expositions d'artistes et de commissaires émergents. Les Territoires, par le biais de ses expositions, projets et évènements, se veut le reflet d'une pratique artistique multidisciplinaire et se positionne comme un lieu de diffusion et d'échanges.

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LOVE AND WAR

exhibition from Friday, April 8th to Saturday, April 23rd, 2011 

vernissage: Thursday, April 7th at 6 p.m.

 

 

"People
have done a lot of great work on the war, but I think the more intimate
you get, the closer it comes to you."  Eugene Richards  

 

Guillaume Simoneau has always fostered a deep fascination for change; his practice results precisely from this obsession. With Love and War,
the artist enters for the first time the transitory space of a single
individual. This new approach allowed him to create a study even more
visceral and personal than usual. For several years, Simoneau
instinctively and sporadically documented the complexity of a young US
army sergeant veteran's love life; before, during and after her
deployment to Iraq. Today, this study has become an investigative
document; a research piecing back together the emotional fabric of a
conflict ridden subject. Love and War is the lyrical
synthesis of all the narrative fragments the artist collected while
hanging around Caroline Annandale between the ages of 16 and 25. 

 

Guillaume Simoneau is a Montreal-based artist recognized by both the
Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du
Québec. His work has been focusing mainly on change and its
surroundings. "It's the simultaneous presence of extreme strength and
extreme vulnerability that fascinates me; the unique and fleeting
coexistence of strength and weakness." Simoneau is currently working
with Mr David Liss, Artistic  Director of the Museum of Contemporary
Canadian Art, as well as Mr Henry Bernadet, Director of the feature
film À l'Ouest de Pluton, on the publication of Après-Bal / After Prom. This first monograph is due for 2012.

 

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05.04.2011 | Les Territoires's blog

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