Programming
Noces de Cana
L'heure du thé (Tea Time)
The work integrates sculpture, engraving and painting, and stages the notions of dialogue, ritual and gesture lost through the universe of electronic communications.
Noces de Cana presents the installation Tea Time. The work integrates sculpture, engraving and painting, and stages the notions of dialogue, ritual and gesture lost through the universe of electronic communications.
Tea, Rose?" she asked. "No, I need a bath," she answered. She tossed her hat aside and ran her fingers through her hair.
Virginia Woolf, Years, 1937
NOCES DE CANA brings together Yves Blais and Violette Michaud, two artists who quickly impressed the public and the visual arts community with the originality of their work. Born in the early 1960s, with bachelor's degrees in visual arts from UQAM, these artists have been exhibiting since 1989. Winners of the Dans 10 ans l'an 2000 exhibition organized by the réseau des maisons de la culture de Montréal in 1990, they also presented the installation Baby Foot at ELAAC 90 (Foire des galeries d'art contemporain de Montréal) and, most recently, the multimedia work Cinéparc at the Maison de la culture Frontenac.
NOCES DE CANA explores themes that question the social and the intimate: gender relations, role-playing and power, the fragility of human beings. All staged in a highly theatrical space, created from symbolic objects that vacillate between the comic and the tragic. Habit. Loneliness. Sometimes, objects take up all the space in our lives. This could be the theme of L'heure du thé. The instruments of ritual are in place, but the people who are to perform them are not. And yet, the meeting takes place. The table, the chairs, the clock take on faces and punctuate this conversation between two imaginary women...