Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.

Chez Sandy
2018
13 x 8 x 8 in/po, 1,600 photos



Exhibition/Exposition: Through Lines, Koffler Gallery (Toronto, Ontario), September 13 – November 25, 2018
​Curator/Commissaire: Noa Bronstein
Artist.e.s:  Lise Beaudry, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Michèle Pearson Clarke, Leila Fatemi, Maria Hupfield, Raafia Jessa, Nadia Myre


"Paired with this work is a stack of 1,600 photos that form one complete image in Chez Sandy (2018). The images are created through a time-consuming technique that separates each single row of pixels from one original photograph, stretches them into an 8 x 8 inch image and prints them individually. Layering the individual prints in sequential order reconstructs the original image along the side of the stack as opposed to the surface of each photograph. Beaudry’s act of blurring past and present and two- and three-dimensional forms calls into question the decisive moment and how we define photography. Beaudry’s ongoing work of redacting her own images allows photography to persist as a complex collaboration between many makers and viewers. In re-assigning the value proposition of images away from singular photographers and moments in time, this iterative project acknowledges that a more expansive definition of photography has the potential to operate more openly." Noa Bronstein 

Full essay is available in online publication THROUGH LINES

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Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
Merci au Conseil des arts du Canada pour leur appui financier pour ce projet.

Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts for their financial support. ​