Programming

Entitled Clairière, this series of photographs plays with three elements: the photographic image that plays with the belief, the photographic paper as a material and object and a work on the shadows created by the play of lightings integrated into the work. The set proposes allusions to animal forms, like "luminous beasts" which parade in us.

The shadow as a trace of a presence, this is what the title of Danielle Hébert's new series of photographs, Clairière, suggests. Folded, torn, truncated, revisited, reframed photos, fragments of daily life taken on the spot, body parts mounted on pins, everything concurs to show that reality never gives itself entirely, that we can at most narrate its landscapes. The juxtaposition of these small formats seeks to create an overall image reminiscent of the shape of an animal, a ghost, a monster that is both disturbing and familiar.

Born in 1960 in St-Valère, Danielle Hébert holds a bachelor's degree in visual arts from Concordia University. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, both in Montreal and abroad, and among her solo exhibitions, we recall her photo installation Le balancement des êtres-chairs, presented at L'Oeil de Poisson in 1988.