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Galerie Isabelle Gounod: Lucie DUVAL - 7 Nov 2008 to 13 Dec 2008 Current Exhibition |
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Lucie DUVAL
Manipulation, 2006, photographie num�rique, impression jet d'encre 130 x 95 cm |
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Lucie DUVAL 7 novembre - 13 d�cembre 2008 Le travail de Lucie Duval, artiste qu�b�coise, pr�sent� pour la premi�re fois � la galerie, s'est d�velopp� depuis quelques ann�es autour d'un objet usuel : des gants pour travailleurs, gants " made in China " et vendus dans le monde entier. Mondialisation oblige, tout se fabrique � moindre co�t. Ils illustrent � eux seuls toute une �conomie de march� o� l'industrie du textile fut l'un des premiers secteurs touch� par cette mondialisation. Mais ici, les signes sont d�vi�s, ces m�mes gants repris par Lucie Duval trouvent une nouvelle fonction. Lucie Duval, coud ces gants entre eux, un � un, r�alisant ainsi des v�tements-sculptures/v�tements haute-couture (ce sont aussi des " petites-mains " qui r�alisent les mod�les cr��s par les couturiers). L'expression fait main prend tout son sens. Ces mains-gants ainsi cousues enrobent le corps, en esquissent ses contours, lui conf�rent une pr�sence dans l'espace. Mains aimantes ou mena�antes ? Lucie Duval aime d�tourner les objets et les mots de leur fonction premi�re r�v�lant � la fois ironie et contradictions de notre �poque : ces v�tements/sculptures s'accompagnent d'une s�rie de photographies o� l'utilisation de mots vient en surimpression. Un mot en fran�ais est alors mis en rapport avec deux traductions anglaises possibles, aux sens �largis, afin d'insister sur l'ambivalence des signes selon les contextes : MAN�UVRE : main d'�uvre non-sp�cialis�e ou ruse, machination. Le m�me mot selon son contexte peut avoir des significations diff�rentes, voire oppos�es. Les photographies de Lucie Duval jouent sur ces deux plans : de simples gants blancs s'assemblent pour former d'audacieux v�tements, tandis que des mots en fran�ais et en anglais, en surimpression offrent un univers de significations contradictoires, � l'image de ces gants de travailleurs. Lucie Duval est n�e en 1959 � Mont-Laurier, au Qu�bec. Elle vit et travaille � Montr�al (QC). Elle a fait ses �tudes sup�rieures � l'�cole des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse et a expos� r�guli�rement au Qu�bec, au Canada, au Mexique, en Europe (France et Italie) et en Asie (Japon, Ta�wan). Elle a �t� expos�e, � la Galerie Joyce Yahouda � Montr�al en 2006, � l'Ambassade du Canada � Washington DC en 2005, � Occurrence - Espace d'art et d'essai contemporain � Montr�al en 2003, Il Centro de la Imagen � Mexico en 2001 (Comm. Sylvain Campeau et Mona Hakim), Mus�e M�tropolitain de Tokyo en 2000, Passage de Retz � Paris (1999), Mus�e des beaux-arts de Kaohsiung, Taiwan (1998)... Ses �uvres font partie de la collection de pr�ts d'�uvres d'art du Conseil des Arts du Canada et du Mus�e National des Beaux-Arts du Qu�bec. Actualit� : Exposition personnelles : Mainmises au Laboratoire de l'Agora � Montr�al, 15 oct.-8 nov. 2008 et au Mus�e de Baie-Saint-Paul (QC), 18 janvier - 3 mai 2009. LUCIE DUVAL Exhibition from 7th November to 13th December 2008 Opening on Thursday 6 November from 6pm... Installation, photography, video Meet Lucie Duval, Saturday 8 November at 4pm Lucie Duval is an artist from Quebec whose work is presented for the time at the gallery and has for several years worked around an everyday object: the worker's gloves �Made in China� and sold all over the world. Everything is produced at minimum cost, globalization leaves no other choice. These gloves singularly illustrate the entire market economy in which the textile industry was one of the first sectors to be touched by this world phenomenon. But in this work, signs are diverted and the gloves used by Lucie Duval take on a new function. Lucie sews these gloves to each other, one after another, thus creating clothes-sculptures/ haute couture garments (we also refer to workers who help make designer pieces as �petites mains�, or small hands). The expression �hand made' takes on its full meaning. These sown hand-gloves wrap the body, sketching its outline, granting it a presence within space. However, are these hands caring or threatening? Lucie Duval enjoys diverting objects and words from their original function to highlight the irony and contradictions of our time. These clothes/ sculptures are accompanied by a series of photographs where the usage of words is printed on the foreground. A word in French is coupled with two English translations, in the large sense and in order to insist on the ambivalence of signs and their contexts. For instance: �maneuver' can either mean non-specialized manpower or imply a ploy or plot of some kind. Depending on its context, the same word can have different, even contradicting meanings. Lucie Duval's photographs play on these two levels: simple white gloves gather to form bold garments, while juxtaposed words in French and English offer a universe of contradictory meanings, such as these workers gloves. Lucie Duval was born in 1959 in Mont-Laurier in Qu�bec. She lives and works in Montr�al (QC). She pursued her graduate studies at the �cole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse and has been regularly exhibited in Quebec, Canada, Mexico, Europe (France and Italy) and in Asia (Japan and Taiwan). Her work has also been shown at the Galerie Joyce Yahouda in Montr�al in 2006, at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC in 2005, at Occurrence - Space for Contemporary Art and Experimentation in Montr�al in 2003, Il Centro de la Imagen in Mexico in 2001 (curated by Sylvain Campeau and Mona Hakim), the Tokyo Metropolitain Museum in 2000, Passage de Retz in Paris (1999), the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan (1998). Her work can also be found in the collections of the Canada Council for the Arts and National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec. |
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