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Vitrine
Labouring the Land
Marie-Michelle Deschamps and Michelle Lacombe
September 8 – October 2 2009
picture building
This arcade project recognizes fully the complicated nature of its site: how it is an inversion of the streetscape
just on the other side of the volume of the gallery, a shallow architectural framing that privileges the eye,
and that it is one that requires physical movement through it. It is built for speed.
More aptly it is built for velocity, for both speed and direction are required to determine it – for when the tools
of the picture plane are disassembled in space we might meet them from the wrong direction as it were,
start with the background and move to the foreground. Unlike the drawing tradition from which this work comes,
there is no static viewer assumed, no single perspective from which to determine the realistic nature of this landscape,
no potential for illusion, but a remarkable capacity for imagination.
do we look at or through the window?
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $37.8 million in the arts in Quebec.
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