Emilie Rondeau

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July 10, 11 & 12, 2009
Nathan Phillips Square

Free Admission
Friday 10:30am-7:30pm
Saturday 10:30am-7:30pm
Sunday 10:30am-6:30pm

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3e impérial – Centre d'essai en art actuel – 164 rue Cowie, Granby (Québec)

PROGRAMMATION 2009-2010

SÉJOUR DE PROSPECTION + SÉJOUR DE PRODUCTION

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Forest City Gallery

January 16th - February 28th, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday January 16th, 7pm

Forest City Gallery is pleased to present Jennifer Dorner’s Sky Vessels and Emily Rondeau’s Reflected Landscape. In these companion exhibitions both artists use landscape as a point of departure. The large grid of eight paintings by Jennifer Dorner directs our attention to the skies above. Here the vastness of open blue space is interrupted by a constellation of intimately rendered absurd events: a cargo ship hauling a ghostly roller coaster, a cheerleader performing her routine from a fishing boat, and a mobile trailer drawn by a passenger jet count among the many spectacles. Travel and passage figure in the work of Emilie Rondeau, whose works map the journey between Halifax and Montreal. Landscape elements perform a digital slide between foreground and background, creating a hallucinatory slippage in the picture plane that signals time as well as space. Working in photography and digital animation, Rondeau pauses and marks familiar territory, hoping to remember her displaced self.

Jennifer Dorner received an MFA from the University of Western Ontario and a BFA from the University of Ottawa. Her work has garnered the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, and in 2004 was short-listed for the RBC Canadian Painting competition. Emilie Rondeau received an undergraduate education at Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA from NSCAD University in Halifax. She won the Yves Gaucher prize in studio arts in 2004, and her work has been exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, and Santa Fe. The Forest City Gallery acknowledges the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the London Arts Council for their generous support of these exhibitions.

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Émilie Rondeau
Artiste en résidence * Artist in Residence

Landscape is the central subject of my research, providing activation and discovery. I approach it from various media. Between the real and the fictive, I incorporate images - fixed and moving, analog and digital. The points of view change, the spheres of exploration differ, but it remains at the core of my approach.

The collection of photographic and video images during repeated round trips between two cities, Montreal and Halifax, became an escape, both real and imaginary, for me, involving the creation of technological images resulting from indirect, filtered, and mediated experiences. The landscape of the Lower St. Lawrence that I documented so closely is now where I live. This settling down gradually inspired an infiltration of the landscape into the domestic context, a new voyage was rooted in the concept of the house. By settling down, I also became rooted and involved in my surroundings. Landscape, in its turn, takes to the road and travels as part of daily life.

Emilie Rondeau holds a bachelor's degree from Concordia University and a master's degree in visual arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Since 2004, she has taken part in many group and solo exhibitions in Quebec and Ontario - among others, at the Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, the Maison des artistes francophones, the CNE, Circulaire, Caravansérail, Engramme, and Presse Papier. She has had residencies at Vaste et Vague, Est-Nord-Est, Zocalo, and l’Atelier de l’Île. Having received a grant from the Fonds relève du Bas-Saint-Laurent in 2007, she presented three photographic works on billboards beside Highway 20.

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Le Kamouraska voyage sur un timbre

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July 11, 12 & 13, 2008 - - - Nathan Phillips Square
Friday 10am - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 7pm
Sunday 10am - 6pm

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