Programming
Jennifer Walton
Les Chasseurs
Conquest of the other, negation of the self, in each of these life-size portraits, the hunter seems to be in pursuit of something, most often with the help of a lens.
A stark metaphor, the theme of the hunt runs through all of Jennifer Walton's paintings. By weaving together a series of references to photography, traditions and the languages of painting, the artist recontextualizes images of hunters, challenges the stereotypes reproduced by traditionally masculine institutions and reveals something of the invididual beneath the mask of conquest. Conquest of the other, negation of the self, in each of these life-size portraits, the hunter seems to be in pursuit of something, most often with a lens. And his gesture reminds us that looking is not seeing.
Born in 1963, Jennifer Walton holds an MFA from Concordia University. She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions and has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. The Hunters is her first solo exhibition in Montreal.