Jocelyne Alloucherie "Sirens"
511 Gallery
This event has ended.
The photographs that make up the exhibition are the result of Alloucherie's observation of icebergs, which the artist describes as "non-sites on the sea where you lose all references to scale and get surrounded by ice." Alloucherie traveled to the northeastern coast of Newfoundland in a fisherman's boat to photograph these "strange ghostly precarious objects", which dominate the legends of northern populations. Ultimately, like the mythic nymphs of The Odyssey who, through their songs, lured sailors into the sea and to their own destruction, Alloucherie's icebergs are sirens. These contemporary icebergs are seen as lurid presences that constitute at once abstractions and concrete bodies-landscapes in continuous transformation.
In Sirens, Alloucherie uses a digital camera to give the images of icebergs a videolike quality. The photographs are mounted on white blocks, chosen by the artist to allude to the subject matter - ice - and its mythical aspect. The photographic image constructs landscape as a monumental presence that combines structural and aesthetic values. Natural elements become architectures, venues that swing between the ephemeral and the permanent, between fragility and solidity.
Media
Schedule
from February 26, 2009 to August 07, 2009