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GROWTH & RISK
An exhibition of 13 artists
from Quebec, Canada
put together for the
Québec ! New York Event
Autumn 2001
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JOCELYNE ALLOUCHERIE
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Born in 1947 in Québec City, Jocelyne Alloucherie lives and works in Montréal. Since 1973, her numerous Canadian exhibitions have included shows at the Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée du Québec and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, as well as at the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. She acquired international recognition in the early 1990s with exhibitions at the Centre canadien d'art contemporain in New York, the Centre culturel canadien in Paris, and with the exhibitions Anninovanta in Bologna, Différentes Natures in Paris, and most recently, Cadres, Fenêtres, Lieux held in Bar-le-Duc in France. Invited to participate in The Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa in 1989, she also participated in the Biennale de Montréal 1998, and will soon take part in the Biennale de photographie et d'arts visuels de Liège 2001. Jocelyne Alloucherie is represented by Josselyne Naef Art Contemporain in Montréal, Galerie Françoise Paviot in Paris, Galleria The Box Associati in Turin, and by Claudia Delank in Cologne.
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"My work always refers to a particular sensation, experienced in relation to certain aspects of the cultural landscape. Generally, I have noticed that cities in the west, whether relatively new or old, impose certain constants on the eyes of those who pass through them: a desire for control, for centralization, for practicality; all of which is made evident by a surfeit of signs-ceremonial façades, symmetrical layouts, massive architecture, wide-open avenues, billboards everywhere one looks. Those masses which define urban space -vegetable or mineral, natural or constructed - take on, in my photographs, the appearance of fortresses whose solidity contrasts with the elusive and precarious luminosity of sky, clouds and shadows. This singular and fugitive temporality is translated in my sculptures by different types of matter . . . water, sand, natural light. The connections established among the various components of these works: between images, between objects, between image and object; between object, image and place, only add to this idea of fluidity and movement. My forms always attempt to juxtapose, within a contiguous relationship, contrasting elements which affirm their solidity, permanence, hesitation, doubt, fragility and ephemeral nature. Such juxtapositions arouse feelings of appropriation and renunciation, their true philosophic base."
(Jocelyne Alloucherie, 2001)
In the exhibition Growth & Risk, Jocelyne Alloucherie expresses this quest in a new series of photographs entitled Ombres, no. 10 (Shadows, no. 10), Ombres, no. 11 (Shadows, no. 11), and Ombres, no. 12 (Shadows, no. 12), 2001.
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