Programming

For the Mois de la photographie à Montréal event, DARE-DARE presents a new project by the artist André Clément. In this photographic game, the DARE-DARE gallery insinuates itself as a starting point, a place of observation and random peripheries.

Foreign bodies originate from an act of presence in the place, from a sustained observation on the part of the photographer-manipulator of images that is André Clément. From these small visual maneuvers emerge invented configurations, delicate virtualities worthy of a prestidigitator of space. Corps étrangers recreates the physical presence of a place in which the artist's additions (made with the help of computers) distort the parameters of our vision, placing us in front of our own capacity to add our presence. It is in this view of the interior of a space reconfigured by the effects of extension and the repetition of architectural motifs that the viewer becomes aware of both the movement of his perception and the permanence of the mediatization. Between the window and the observer, the screen and the image seeker, the work and the viewer, a certain distancing allows for free circulation. Foreign Bodies is presented to us like a setting of photographic places, fictitious spaces in which it is necessary to put oneself at a distance to offer the capture of an open space...

Source : Sylvie Tourangeau

André Clément has been researching the potential of the photographic image in relation to the space that hosts it and to other media, such as video, painting and digital images, for the past ten years. He has exhibited his work in Canada and abroad (Switzerland, Italy, Scotland) after studying at Concordia University and at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he completed a Master's degree in visual arts (Prix Marcel-Aimé Gagnon, 1991). He has been artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Art on two occasions and is currently teaching at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

André Clément thanks Hélène Poirier, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.