Camila Vasquez
Demeurer en écluse
- Exposition
Camila Vásquez was born in Montreal to Chilean parents. At the age of 7, she returns with her family to Chile. Twenty years later, she returns to live in Montreal.-In her multidisciplinary artistic practice, she is interested in the relationship to the inhabited space and the Other, but also to the transformation of this relationship over time. She holds a Master's degree in Visual and Media Arts from UQÀM (2011) and a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from the University of Chile in Santiago (2003). Her creations have been shown in solo and group exhibitions and events in Chile, Argentina, Spain and Québec. Among her solo exhibitions are; Ficción habitacional, Bech Gallery (Santiago, Chile, 2005), Portaretratos, Galeria Universitaria (Concepción, Chile, 2005) and Demeurer en écluse, La Chaufferie, Lézarts Cooperative (Montreal, 2010). Following a residency at Praxis in 2011, the artist is moving on to the 3e impérial (Granby, Quebec).
—VERNISSAGE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 06, 2012 AT 5 PM
Galerie B-312 is pleased to present Demeurer en écluse, in its main hall, a multidisciplinary installation created by Chilean, Montréal based artist Camila Vásquez. The starting point of this project is the artist's home in 2008, with her studio situated at the crossroads of a long narrow corridor and a skylight, communicating with adjacent dwellings. Through the music and snatches of conversations diffused in the skylight or retreating into the cramped but intimate hallway, the daily experience of this paradoxical setting has become a real research ground for the artist.-For a year and a half, Camila has explored the flow of daily life and produced documented performances in photo or video, schematic sketches and narrative texts. The second phase of this project is a meticulous process of classifying and sorting these experiments, which has also required a long-term effort.-The main object of the installation, halfway between a piece of furniture and an architectural model, contains several drawers and compartments. Visitors can consult them as they please, reconstructing the space and narration through various experimentations. The installation unfolds with phrases placed on the wall as well as a cupola suspended near the windows of the gallery, which diffuses a sonorous performance.-Demeurer en écluse questions the notion of distance, as much in its proper sense as figuratively. Between the other and the intimacy, between performance and documentation, the mockup and the final object, the experience and the memory, gaps widen. Can sensitivity or intellect bridge these gaps? Or do we have to accept these distances as incompressible residual spaces? The work of Camila Vásquez walks us through such experiences.
-Mathieu Menard
