Manon de Boer
20 Sep - 23 Nov 2008
MANON DE BOER
20 September - 23 November 2008
Opening Reception
Friday 19 September | 7:30 PM
Dutch artist Manon de Boer captures people in the process of remembering. For her Canadian debut at The Power Plant, she presents film portraits of two women recalling their formative years in Paris in the 1970s. Sylvia Kristel – Paris, 2003, depicts the star of the famed soft-core Emmanuelle films reminiscing about her past. Resonating Surfaces, 2005, meanwhile, creates a picture of both Paris and São Paulo through the memories of Suely Rolnik: a psychoanalyst, translator and former lover of Gilles Deleuze.
Departing from traditional narrative cinema’s reliance on images of women, de Boer creates complex, poetic portraits that privilege texture and the female voice–overlapping elements that keep picture, sound and text in a state of flux. Akin to the experimental novels of Marguerite Duras, de Boer circles around her subjects but never seeks to fix them. Characters are elusive, memory is flexible and bodily experience shapes subjectivity. Curated by Senior Curator of Programs, Helena Reckitt.
Manon de Boer (born in Kodaicanal, India, 1966) lives in Brussels. She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, including at the 2007 Venice Biennale, the 2008 Berlin Biennial and in a 2007–08 solo exhibition organized by the Frankfurter Kunstverein and Witte de With, Rotterdam.
Manon de Boer is presented by Cultural Agency Partners the Consulate-General of the Kingdom of The Netherlands and the Mondriaan Foundation.
Manon de Boer, Resonating Surfaces, 2005, video.
Courtesy Jan Mot.
Sylvia Kristel – Paris, 2003, 39 min.
Resonating Surfaces, 2005, 38 min
20 September - 23 November 2008
Opening Reception
Friday 19 September | 7:30 PM
Dutch artist Manon de Boer captures people in the process of remembering. For her Canadian debut at The Power Plant, she presents film portraits of two women recalling their formative years in Paris in the 1970s. Sylvia Kristel – Paris, 2003, depicts the star of the famed soft-core Emmanuelle films reminiscing about her past. Resonating Surfaces, 2005, meanwhile, creates a picture of both Paris and São Paulo through the memories of Suely Rolnik: a psychoanalyst, translator and former lover of Gilles Deleuze.
Departing from traditional narrative cinema’s reliance on images of women, de Boer creates complex, poetic portraits that privilege texture and the female voice–overlapping elements that keep picture, sound and text in a state of flux. Akin to the experimental novels of Marguerite Duras, de Boer circles around her subjects but never seeks to fix them. Characters are elusive, memory is flexible and bodily experience shapes subjectivity. Curated by Senior Curator of Programs, Helena Reckitt.
Manon de Boer (born in Kodaicanal, India, 1966) lives in Brussels. She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, including at the 2007 Venice Biennale, the 2008 Berlin Biennial and in a 2007–08 solo exhibition organized by the Frankfurter Kunstverein and Witte de With, Rotterdam.
Manon de Boer is presented by Cultural Agency Partners the Consulate-General of the Kingdom of The Netherlands and the Mondriaan Foundation.
Manon de Boer, Resonating Surfaces, 2005, video.
Courtesy Jan Mot.
Sylvia Kristel – Paris, 2003, 39 min.
Resonating Surfaces, 2005, 38 min