During the month of August the Belgo Report is going to showcase individual artists who are currently part of the exhibitions taking place int he galleries of the Belgo.
We are kicking off the series with Luc Courchesne, whose mesmerizing video piece is currently on show at Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain as part of the Between the Sea and the Sky exhibition.
About the artist
Luc Courchesne took part in the emergence of media arts thirty years ago when, as a video artist inspired by a generation of experimental filmmakers such as Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton, he adopted computer technologies. First delving into interactive portraiture, a great artistic tradition re-articulated in a new mould, his work has recently turned to another important genre, that of landscape. With his installations, “panoscopic” images, and a device of his own making used to create a sense of visual immersion, he transforms spectators into a visitors, actors and inhabitants of his experiential crafts.
About the Shore Series, currently on show at PFOAC
Having dealt with landscape and the idea of immersion since 2000 with the Panoscopic Journal, Luc Courchesne’s photographic work has drawn out the visual and symbolic significance of boundaries, abrupt transitions, thresholds. Around 2006, he adapted his panoramic optical systems to video. In the Shores Series, he focuses his attention on beaches—the locus, he finds, of perpetually changing boundaries, a kind of continuous negotiation between two states, the dynamic meeting of two emphatically different and mutually transformative substances. Here, Courchesne tells us, one may read a metaphor for interpersonal relationships and the occasion for a fascinating artistic experience that consists in observing a line formed and transformed in a process at once repetitive and random. Following his first experiment in Pointe-Aux-Loups, Îles-de-la-Madeleine, in 2007, he went on to record about a dozen beaches to date in Canada, the United States, the Carribean Islands, France, Finland, China and Japan.
Texts from the artist’s website at http://courchel.net
Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, space 216
Luc Courchesne, Jérôme Fortin, Karilee Fuglem
Between the Sea and the Sky
July 14 – August 11, 2012
www.pfoac.com
