Programming
Natalie Roy
Sculptural installation
Natalie Roy's sculptural installation invites us to an encounter with objects denatured from their original essence.
Natalie Roy's sculptural installation invites us to an encounter with objects denatured from their original essence. Wood, wax, soap, sponges are all staged and offer a relationship with water. Altered, reworked, these objects that furnish our surroundings tell us about the fragility of a certain order, the unstable space between life and death.
Reflections on the stable and the unstable, based on a more or less altered nature and more or less denatured objects. Objets de dérive shows several states and aspects of the same materials. Using a variety of materials, all of which have a relationship with water: wood with the rainfall essential to its growth, glass with its uncertain transparencies, wax with its impermeability, soap that lathers and melts, sponge that sucks and can give back, sand resulting from erosion and salt with its dissolutions, its oceanic presence, Natalie Roy shows things in their passage, as if a little feverish. Reacting to their silence, she tampers with some of the objects that furnish our surroundings, transporting them from the functional to the metaphorical; she destabilizes space and forms, disturbing them so as to capsize their usual meaning.
Natalie Roy works and lives in Quebec City. In 1990, she obtained a B.A. in Visual Arts from Université Laval in Quebec City. In November 1990, she presented "Objets de dérive" at Galerie L'Œil de Poisson, Québec. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, notably at Galerie La Chambre Blanche, Québec and Galerie L'Œil de Poisson, Québec. Université Laval. In 1990, she received the René Richard Grant from Université Laval.