Sample : Ethonology/History, Fine Arts/Decorative Arts, Science/Technology
© Geneviève Cadieux; TOUTE REPRODUCTION INTERDITE / ALL REPRODUCTIONS PROHIBITED
| Field Name |
Value |
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| Institution |
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery |
| Accession Number |
997.48 |
| Discipline |
Fine Arts |
| Object Category |
Fine Arts |
| Object Sub-category |
Photography |
| Object Name |
photograph |
| Object Type |
color |
| Quantity |
1 |
| Artist/Maker |
Cadieux, Geneviève |
| Title |
Untitled/Sans titre (dos) |
| End Date |
1994 |
| Period |
4th quarter of the century |
| Unit Linear |
cm |
| Height |
138.5 |
| Width |
92.5 |
| Medium |
color print |
| Support |
paper |
| Subject/Image |
body |
| Description |
The color photograph presents a full-frame view of a person's back and head, from just inside the arms, above the waist,
and at the ears. The subject's hair is short and silver, and their spinal column is very noticeable.
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| Narrative |
This work belongs to a body of work that pictures magnified images of people and focuses on a single part of their anatomy.
They reference the cinematographic in their cropped, cut and seamed formating, and by extension suggest the filmic "close-up."
Blown up images of friends, family and strangers, these pictures bear evidence of lived experience and transmutation (scars,
defects), revealing that which goes unnoticed. The pictured bodies expand, both literally and figuratively, beyond the subject/frame.
Cadieux's works are simultaneously fragile and dangerous. They evoke a multitude of emotions form the viewer as they present
a reading of the body in a progression that moves from the physical, to the visual, to the visualized. In an effort to extend
the significance of each work, Cadieux incorporates the technology of the photographic medium into her creations, extending
their symbolic and representational dimension through her manipulation of the imprint and its chemical composition.
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| Originating Continent |
North America |
| Originating Country |
Canada |
| Originating Province |
Quebec |
| Culture |
Canadian |
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