Maurice, 80x105in, Inkjet prints and strips, 2018. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
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Maurice
2018 80 x 105, in/po 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 
Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
Through lines brings together the works of seven artists that challenge notions of redaction, tackling its typical devices of shredding, blacking out, editing and covering up. Each project featured in this exhibition engages a restorative gesture that speaks to the ways in which history and memory are conceptualized within a contemporary context. Rather than considering redaction simply as a bureaucratic tool or an outcome of state control, these specific approaches enable new forms of knowledge production and remembering, both politically and personally. Contemplating alternative legibilities that might emerge through redaction, the exhibition highlights the spaces of inquiry revealed through acts of obstruction. |
"Lise Beaudry likewise examines the ways in which personal images can be put toward other uses by reconstituting intimate family photographs. Posthumously collaborating with her deceased father as the record-keeper who documented their family life throughout the course of his own, she sutures together various images from both his and her archives, enlarges the whole, and then overlays shredded images, creating a disorienting blurring of several personal snapshots. In Maurice (2018) a bikini-clad, toddler-aged Beaudry is shown beside her son while her partner appears at the opposite end of the frame." Noa Bronstein
Full essay is available in online publication THROUGH LINES
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.
Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts for their financial support.