Sylvie Bélanger | ||
art work |
My work stems from a nomadic aesthetic, immersing images, sounds and the visitor in a sort of collage. It's a collage, which constantly redefines ambling spaces, through aimless video loops combined with sounds and silences that interrupt the flow of images. It’s a collage that deploys a resistance to fix defined positions, both in space and in time. The fluidity of the visual and sound spaces sets the stage for a view of the subject, which is in a state of constantly becoming. It is a vagrancy, where my motive force, is a visual and auditory movement, one that affectively rests in the viewer and never on the screen. It orients, disorients, links and ruptures sound and image in fluid variations, one that loops in the end, as discontinuously as any contemporary attempt at fixing in time or space our personal subjectivity. For many years I constructed large-scale installations of architectural and spatial elements with technological components such as video surveillance, photography and sound. That work raised questions about memory, time, space and the body. This past work reiterated that the technological eye sees, but has no gaze, it is a vertigo of seeing which strips away both place and being. More and more our eyes desert the "flesh of the world " in order to read graphic electronic representations instead of seeing things. Spatiality (I include the body) is reduced to a visual construct alone, a way of seeing and a way of being seen, it’s an ideational process in which the "image" of reality takes ontological precedence over the tangible substance and appearance of the real world (Virilio). I looked at how technology isolates, appropriates and affects our understanding of spaces and the body. Presently, my use of photo/video images, interactivity and sound technologies, orients the work where the poetic and the seduction of images create a psychologically unsettling space that questions our time/space experience as well as our experience of the self/subject.
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