A polyvalent and productive artist, Nathalie Bujold offers, with Pixels et petits points, an exhibition made from winks of the eye and the back and forth of influences. As the title suggests, the show brings together works that bear witness to the artist's inclination for both hand-made objects strongly inspired by crafts, and media art. It is not only the able exploration of diverse materials and techniques that marks Bujold's production, but an entire range of references and appeals to the history of media and representation via the genres of portraiture, still life and landscape.
Working from series in which she asked a few of those close to her to pose and to which she associated a slow unraveling of landscapes and still lives, the artist transmits an expression of just simply, quietly being in the world through her videos. Accompanied by original soundtracks by the composer Gerard Leckey, these pieces play with varying the combination of visual and sonic components and on the tension between still and moving images. They function as visual metaphors for the movement inherent in natural objects and beings.
In parallel with the videos, Bujold amused herself with making "derived products" alluding to different procedures for building an image. And so, a collection of small embroideries, magnificently executed -- stitch by stitch -- on the basis of the videotapes, themselves assembled pixel by pixel, constitute an eloquent example of such "products".
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Nathalie Bujold holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Laval University. Since 1992 she has shown her work in many Canadian cities, including a solo exhibition -- En wing en hein -- at the CLARK centre in 1998, as well as in Columbia, Italy and Lebanon. Among other places, she was a beneficiary of the artist in residence programme "Les Inclassables" in Marseille (France) in 2001, followed by a stay at the Fondation Hariri in Saida (Lebanon) the following year. Her video work has also been shown in numerous festivals in North America and Europe since 1999.
The artist thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, le Vidéographe, Lauraine André, Pierre Brault, Les Brodeuses, Andrew Brouse, Jackie, Serge and Claude, Annick Fontaine, Patrice Fortier, Pascal Grandmaison, Jacqueline Grégoire, Danielle Groleau, Liliane Hesse, Georges Khayat, Koya, Manon Labrecque, Réal-Olivier Lantier, Jean-Marc Lebel, Valérie Leblond, Gerard Leckey, Jean-Marc Lessage, Alain Lopez, Edouard Monet, James Montambault, Marie-Hélène Parant, Sonia Pelletier, Colleene Rault, Maxime Rioux, Saint-Antoine, François St-Jacques and Anthu Vu. |
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