Marie-Jeanne Musiol
21 Oct - 02 Dec 2006
MARIE-JEANNE MUSIOL
"Miroirs du cosmos"
Vernissage: Saturday October 21 from 2:30 to 5:30 pm
The gallery is pleased to celebrate its 5th anniversary by inviting you to the vernissage of Marie-Jeanne Musiol's exhibition Miroirs du cosmos on Saturday October 21 from 2:30 to 5:30. The artist will be presenting new series of photographs mounted in lightboxes and a 15 mn video with a soundtrack by John Mark Seck et Alvaro de Minaya. The artist states:
"After having recorded the light imprint of numerous plants to constitute a small energy botany, I set out to probe the bright corona surrounding them. With a video tool, I entered their body of light and some particularities of the topography suddenly became apparent: configurations of explosions, cocoons or streams of light, incandescence, black holes. Light surrounding the plant recorded in its electromagnetic field also contains in its ethereal substance a mirror image of the cosmos. In a surprising inversion of scale, the structures of the infinite seen through the Hubble telescope appear wrapped and contained in the streams of light emanating from the living.
Curiously, this parabolic effect becomes manifest at the cross-road of analog and digital probing. The light field of the plant is captured on a black-and-white negative. Observed through the naked eye or printed on photographic paper, the cosmic deployment in the light field of the plant is not apparent. But once scanned, the negative yields information with cosmic echoes buried in the silver layer. A third dimension is revealed in the image where matter appears to become a substrate of light with its surprising mirror forms.
Mirrors of the Cosmos maps out five different itineraries where the topography of four plants and a mineral guide the video at the heart of this terra incognita. The details vary from one plant to another - from plectranthus to female fern - to create an unexpected survey of a natural irradiating universe. Some fifteen light boxes for their part freeze details, particular moments, framings of landscapes appearing and organizing in space: figures of planets, constellations, black holes. Here the photographic image goes from digital to positive transparency. The apparent grain evokes the origins of the light photographs, reminiscent of the “radiant” forest where Goethe would experience mystical enlightenment. The most startling observation of this voyage to the heart of the light of plants? The total immersion of plants in a luminous state, including the zones of dark energy."
The gallery is proud to inform you that the current issue of the photography magazine CV ciel variable (no 70) contains several reproductions of these works which accompany an article by Sylvain Campeau. Also of note is that the poetry magazine ARC will publish in their next issue (no. 57) another group of photographs from the series.. A poetry reading and artist's talk will take place at the gallery on 2 December during the launch of the magazine.
The photographic installations by Marie-Jeanne Musiol have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Canada and abroad. Her installation Bodies of Light has been presented at La Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris as part of the exhibition Résonances which travelled at ZKM in Karlsruhe in Germany, at Conde Duque Medialab in Madrid, at V2/ Tent in Rotterdam et at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest.
Please note: The gallery will be closed from November 7-10 due to our participation at Art Toronto
The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 until 5:30 pm and on appointment.
"Miroirs du cosmos"
Vernissage: Saturday October 21 from 2:30 to 5:30 pm
The gallery is pleased to celebrate its 5th anniversary by inviting you to the vernissage of Marie-Jeanne Musiol's exhibition Miroirs du cosmos on Saturday October 21 from 2:30 to 5:30. The artist will be presenting new series of photographs mounted in lightboxes and a 15 mn video with a soundtrack by John Mark Seck et Alvaro de Minaya. The artist states:
"After having recorded the light imprint of numerous plants to constitute a small energy botany, I set out to probe the bright corona surrounding them. With a video tool, I entered their body of light and some particularities of the topography suddenly became apparent: configurations of explosions, cocoons or streams of light, incandescence, black holes. Light surrounding the plant recorded in its electromagnetic field also contains in its ethereal substance a mirror image of the cosmos. In a surprising inversion of scale, the structures of the infinite seen through the Hubble telescope appear wrapped and contained in the streams of light emanating from the living.
Curiously, this parabolic effect becomes manifest at the cross-road of analog and digital probing. The light field of the plant is captured on a black-and-white negative. Observed through the naked eye or printed on photographic paper, the cosmic deployment in the light field of the plant is not apparent. But once scanned, the negative yields information with cosmic echoes buried in the silver layer. A third dimension is revealed in the image where matter appears to become a substrate of light with its surprising mirror forms.
Mirrors of the Cosmos maps out five different itineraries where the topography of four plants and a mineral guide the video at the heart of this terra incognita. The details vary from one plant to another - from plectranthus to female fern - to create an unexpected survey of a natural irradiating universe. Some fifteen light boxes for their part freeze details, particular moments, framings of landscapes appearing and organizing in space: figures of planets, constellations, black holes. Here the photographic image goes from digital to positive transparency. The apparent grain evokes the origins of the light photographs, reminiscent of the “radiant” forest where Goethe would experience mystical enlightenment. The most startling observation of this voyage to the heart of the light of plants? The total immersion of plants in a luminous state, including the zones of dark energy."
The gallery is proud to inform you that the current issue of the photography magazine CV ciel variable (no 70) contains several reproductions of these works which accompany an article by Sylvain Campeau. Also of note is that the poetry magazine ARC will publish in their next issue (no. 57) another group of photographs from the series.. A poetry reading and artist's talk will take place at the gallery on 2 December during the launch of the magazine.
The photographic installations by Marie-Jeanne Musiol have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Canada and abroad. Her installation Bodies of Light has been presented at La Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris as part of the exhibition Résonances which travelled at ZKM in Karlsruhe in Germany, at Conde Duque Medialab in Madrid, at V2/ Tent in Rotterdam et at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest.
Please note: The gallery will be closed from November 7-10 due to our participation at Art Toronto
The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 until 5:30 pm and on appointment.