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Manon De Pauw

Residency

Résidence d'été
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- August 21 to 25, 2023
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© Manon De Pauw—Performers : Karina Champoux

Living in Montreal since the early 1990s, Manon De Pauw was born in 1971 in Vancouver and grew up in Victoriaville. She is a professor at the School of Visual and Media Arts at UQAM where she co-founded the Labo lumière [creations+interdisciplinary research].
In a spirit of DIY, with economy of means, it arouses intrigue through the use of poor materials and play with scale. Light as a source of image and tangible material to manipulate and the manifest presence of the body at work create two axes of research in her practice. This takes the form of both individual creations – such as photography, video, installation and public art – and collective creations. Her works have been exhibited among others at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, at the Galerie de l'UQAM, at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico, at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and at the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris.

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- August 21 to 25, 2023

Lueurs Oniriques emerges from a concern with screen devices, whose artificial glow invades the most intimate spaces of our lives and interferes with our ability to daydream, to be bored and even to fall asleep. The artist attempts to appropriate this reality to probe its impact on our body and our psyche, exploring the indeterminate space between sleep and wakefulness, the transition between day and night and vice versa. She creates a dreamlike universe where obsolete* screens are poetically diverted from their use and where bodies interact with luminous and reflective materials.

* Please note that the artist collects obsolete tablets and phones for her project.

Living in Montreal since the early 1990s, Manon De Pauw was born in 1971 in Vancouver and grew up in Victoriaville. She is a professor at the School of Visual and Media Arts at UQAM where she co-founded the Labo lumière [creations+interdisciplinary research].
In a spirit of DIY, with economy of means, it arouses intrigue through the use of poor materials and play with scale. Light as a source of image and tangible material to manipulate and the manifest presence of the body at work create two axes of research in her practice. This takes the form of both individual creations – such as photography, video, installation and public art – and collective creations. Her works have been exhibited among others at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, at the Galerie de l'UQAM, at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico, at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and at the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris.

Website