Olivia Boudreau, Intérieur, 2012. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Guy l’Heureux
Olivia Boudreau
Intérieur
3 October – 2 December 2012
at Darling Foundry, Montréal
[…] Intérieur is a videographic installation involving projection on two screens, set almost in front of each other, to reproduce, in a close, static shot, two windows as seen from inside an apartment. Randomly blown open by the wind in turn, they are then promptly closed by a figure who enters and then leaves the visual field to perform his action. That of Intérieur consists in capturing the opening of the windows, each veiled by a white curtain, as well as the motion of the fabric caught in the draught.
By “magnifying what is terribly ordinary”, Olivia Boudreau turns this startlingly banal scene – two windows, two curtains, one figure – into a paradoxically captivating situation that simultaneously involves several features of our perception. With its two screens facing each other and an arrangement of volumes that plays on transparency and superimposition, the installation prompts the viewer to mentally reconstitute the apartment’s room and to appropriate its inner space. Long moments of stillness, framed by closed windows, put us in a state of expectation and steep us in a new temporality, one in which we are forced to remain passive. The opening of one of the windows and the movement of the curtain that is then caught in the wind turn this action into a genuine event. [read the full text here]
Darling Foundry
745 Ottawa Street
Montréal, Quebec
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