Catherine Bodmer
Catherine Bodmer Artist in Residence Artist in Residence (Français FOLLOWS) The current project is a new body of work I am currently developing the following a residency research that I conducted in spring 2010 in Mexico City. From a "routinization" of my trips to town, I was curious to explore the idea of a place of nudity in a city teeming with people and things. Next intuitively rather the idea of limbo, this intermediate space and blurring between heaven and hell, I have documented several places that seemed to fit that image in-between. Using strategies of doubling and multiplication, symmetry and asymmetry, these links are put in situations and relationships with themselves and with the contradictions inherent in the desire to reconstruct the lost paradise.
I use the medium of photography and digital processing of the image to explore real and imaginary spaces of everyday life, but above all, that of the same image that allows the fusion and confusion of the two. It is never to use that photograph as a document of reality, but rather as material that can arrange multiple images and elements with digital means. They are constructed images that hover between reality and fiction, and propose to revisit the themes of ambition, desire, and absurdity. Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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Catherine Bodmer, a Swiss, a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lucerne, Switzerland, and earned a Master of Fine Arts University of Quebec at Montreal in 1999. Her artistic practice includes installations, works in situ and photographs revolve around the notions of transformation and fluidity at the heart of his research. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Canada and in Mexico and Taiwan. In 2008 she was awarded the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography Council of the Arts. In spring 2010, she completed a residency in Mexico City under the program of workshops, residencies Arts Council and letters from Quebec, and she will return this printemps pour une autre résidence de création au ADM Centro Arte Diseño Multimedia. ************* 
Catherine Bodmer Artist in Residence The present project constitutes a new body of work which is a direct offshoot of my research residency in Mexico City in the spring 2010. Starting from a “routinization” of my movements throughout the city, I wanted to explore the idea of the nudity of particular places in a city teeming with people and things. Pursuing in a rather intuitive fashion the idea of limbo, that indistinct, intermediate zone between paradise and hell, I documented several different locales which seemed to correspond to this image of in-betweenness. By employing techniques of replication and multiplication, symmetry and asymmetry, these places and situations are put in relationships with themselves, revealing inherent contradictions in the desire to reconstruct a lost paradise.
I have been using photography and the digital processing of images to explore the real and imaginary spaces of daily life and, above all, the space within the image itself which allows for a fusion and confusion of the two. The photograph is never solely a document portraying a reality, but rather provides the means to digitally configure a variety of images and elements. These are constructed images, oscillating between reality and fiction and permitting a re-evaluation of the themes of ambition, desire, and absurdity.
Catherine Bodmer, who is from Switzerland, graduated from the School of Arts in Lucerne and completed a Master’s degree in art at the Université du Québec in Montréal in 1999. Her artistic work includes installations, in-situ creations, and photographs dealing with ideas of transformation and fluidity which are central to her research. Her work has been presented at several solo and group exhibitions across Canada, as well as in Mexico and Taiwan. In 2008, she was awarded the Canada Council’s Duke and Duchess of York Award in Photography. In 2010, she completed a residency in Mexico City as part of the studio residency program of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and she will return this spring to participate in another residency at ADM Centro Arte Diseño Multimedia in Mexico City.
Catherine Bodmer Artist in Residence The present project constitutes a new body of work which is a direct offshoot of my research residency in Mexico City in the spring 2010. Starting from a “routinization” of my movements throughout the city, I wanted to explore the idea of the nudity of particular places in a city teeming with people and things. Pursuing in a rather intuitive fashion the idea of limbo, that indistinct, intermediate zone between paradise and hell, I documented several different locales which seemed to correspond to this image of in-betweenness. By employing techniques of replication and multiplication, symmetry and asymmetry, these places and situations are put in relationships with themselves, revealing inherent contradictions in the desire to reconstruct a lost paradise. I have been using photography and the digital processing of images to explore the real and imaginary spaces of daily life and, above all, the space within the image itself which allows for a fusion and confusion of the two. The photograph is never solely a document portraying a reality, but rather provides the means to digitally configure a variety of images and elements. These are constructed images, oscillating between reality and fiction and permitting a re-evaluation of the themes of ambition, desire, and absurdity.
Catherine Bodmer, who is from Switzerland, graduated from the School of Arts in Lucerne and completed a Master’s degree in art at the Université du Québec in Montréal in 1999. Her artistic work includes installations, in-situ creations, and photographs dealing with ideas of transformation and fluidity which are central to her research. Her work has been presented at several solo and group exhibitions across Canada, as well as in Mexico and Taiwan. In 2008, she was awarded the Canada Council’s Duke and Duchess of York Award in Photography. In 2010, she completed a residency in Mexico City as part of the studio residency program of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and she will return this spring to participate in another residency at ADM Centro Arte Diseño Multimedia in Mexico City.
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