Jacynthe Carrier
Artist in Residence / Artist in Residence (Français FOLLOWS)
Artist Statement
My artistic approach is built around a practice photography and video. Through these mediums of representation, I examine the different relationships of the body to the environment and our ways of thinking and eating landscaped areas. Specifically, I experience the home landscape, or rather "places scars" (those who tell the passing scenery and the presence of humans). Territories inappropriate habitat, they were drawn by need, productivity, abundance and are now characterized by abandonment. The landscape, urban or rural, is a land of re-creation, an area to tame. My work focuses on demonstrating, for the still image or motion, different interventions and experiments to tame the body for these spaces. In the meeting of the staging and performance, the body becomes a tool for storytelling and a surveyor of the landscape and tries to draw a discourse between place and body. Within these maneuvers housing, landscape shaped by discarding its distance and aspires to become a venue for the meeting, a space of experimentation and cohabitation.
Biography
native of Quebec Jacynthe Carrier works primarily in photography and video. She holds a BA from the University of Quebec at Montreal, she is currently pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts at Concordia University. In recent years, particularly his artistic questioning the way we occupy and alter the contemporary territory. His work was, among others presented at the Biennial Art of Quebec (2008), the Center of the photography Seen (2009), the center at Rimouski Caravanserai (2009) and the gallery at UQAM (2010). In 2009 she won the Prix Videre Changing
highlighting the recent production of a performing artist emerging in the region of Quebec.
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Jacynthe Carrier
Artist in Residence
Artist’s Statement
My artistic approach through photography and videography is founded on an exploration of the different relationships between body and environment and of the ways we have of conceiving and consuming landscapes. More precisely, I portray the experience of inhabiting a landscape or rather the “scar zones” (those landscapes which are a testimonial to the passage and presence of man). These are areas not immediately suited to habitation but which are shaped by need, productivity and surfeit, and then subsequently abandoned. Landscape, urban or rural, is the territory of re-creation, an area that has been tamed. My work seeks to reveal, through still or moving images, the different attempts made and means used to adapt the body to these spaces. Where setting and performance meet, the body becomes the surveyor of these landscapes and a narrative tool attempting to establish a dialogue between itself and the territory. Through the sustained intent to inhabit the land, the feeling of distance is attenuated in the reshaped landscape and it becomes the ground of encounters, a place of experimentation and cohabitation.
Biography
Jacynthe Carrier is from Quebec City and works primarily in the fields of photography and videography. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree from the Université de Québec à Montréal and is presently completing a Master’s degree in fine arts at Concordia University. During the last few years, her artistic work has been an exploration of the different ways we have of occupying and altering modern-day territory. Her work has been presented at the biennale d’Art de Québec(2008), the Centre de la photographie Vu (2009), the centre Caravansérail in Rimouski (2009) and the UQAM gallery (2010). In 2009, she won the Prix Videre Relève,
awarded for the recent work of a new artist in the Quebec City area.
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