La débâcle 5, folded and assembled screenprinted paper, mixed media structure, 550 x 675 x 95 cm, as installed at Galerie d’art de Matane, Matane, QC, 2011. Photo by Jean-Simon DesRochers.
September 13 – October 20, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 13, 6:30 – 8:3o p.m
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Open Studio is pleased to present Inlandsis, an exhibition by Montréal, QC-based artist, Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret from September 12 – October 20, 2012. The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Toronto, ON-based artist and writer Daryl Vocat.
The landscapes we believe to be permanent can sometimes transform to the point where certain world representations vanish. Inlandsis deals with this shift. Through a site-specific installation constructed out of 5000 pieces of screenprinted and folded paper, the artist places the viewer in a space between real landscape and its imagined transposition. Calling to mind an ice mass (Inlandsis is a French word meaning ice cap or glacier), the work explores the growth of a form by multiplication, repetition and juxtaposition. Each module is encased to form a modeling of a virtual and abstract place — a hybrid space between drawing and sculpture.
Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret‘s work has been exhibited in Canada and abroad, including at the Design Space Gallery (Tel Aviv, Israel), Parisian Laundry (Montréal, QC), Martha Street Studio (Winnipeg, MB), Crane Arts (Philadelphia, PA), the Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec (Montreal, QC) and the 808 Gallery (Boston, MA). She has produced more than two dozen art books, which have been presented and included in collections in Canada and abroad, including the University of California at Berkeley Environmental Design Library, the VCUQatar Special Collections and the Art Institute of Chicago Flaxman Library. She is currently completing doctoral studies in art research and practices at L’Université du Québec à Montréal.