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DIANE LANDRY (Version française)THE DEFIBRILLATORS September 21, 2008 – January 4, 2009 Opening: September 21, 2008, 2 pm The Defibrillators is a travelling retrospective exhibition that covers artist Diane Landry’s twenty-year career.This first retrospective of a leading figure in Quebec contemporary art, this exhibition reveals all the cutting-edge relevance of her work and her approach. Diane Landry takes her inspiration from the world around her to create playful environments that plunge the visitor into an experience of sights, sounds and emotions.To make her works she recycles, transforms, manipulates and falsifies everyday objects, wrenching them from their original function to imbue them with a new kind of poetry. Incorporating into her works the time element of performance and the spatial dimension of installation, this multi-disciplinary artist seeks to destabilize viewers, stimulating in them a different perception of familiar objects. Born in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Diane Landry lives and works in Quebec City. In addition the many awards she has won throughout her career, she recently became the first recipient of the Giverny Capital Prize, granted for excellence in present-day art in Quebec. Eve-Lyne Beaudry, associate curator at the Musée d’art de Joliette, is the curator of the exhibition The Defibrillators, a retrospective produced and diffused by the Musée d’art de Joliette with generous funding from the Canada Museums Assistance Program. Eve-Lyne Beaudry is also the author of the catalogue to be co-published by the MAJ and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery of Oshawa for the occasion.This richly illustrated monograph will be edited by Kim Simon, an independent curator who is director of programming at the TPW Gallery in Toronto.
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| Diane Landry. The Defibrillators |
| Kerbel – Kuiper – Magor – Roy-Bois. Burrow |