P’eau douce, 2004, artwork by Marc Dulude. Photo credits: Marc Dulude.

P’eau douce, 2004, artwork by Marc Dulude. Photo credits: Marc Dulude.

P’eau douce, 2004, artwork by Marc Dulude. Photo credits: Marc Dulude.

P’eau douce, 2004, artwork by Marc Dulude. Photo credits: Marc Dulude.

P’eau douce, 2004, artwork by Marc Dulude. Photo credits: Marc Dulude.

P’eau douce, 2004, artwork by Marc Dulude. Photo credits: Marc Dulude.

P’eau douce, 2004, artwork by Marc Dulude. Photo credits: Marc Dulude.

P’eau douce, 2004, artwork by Marc Dulude. Photo credits: Marc Dulude.

P’eau douce, 2004, artwork by Marc Dulude. Photo credits: Marc Dulude.

P’eau douce, 2004, artwork by Marc Dulude. Photo credits: Marc Dulude.

P’eau douce, 2004, artwork by Marc Dulude. Photo credits: Marc Dulude.

P’eau douce, 2004, artwork by Marc Dulude. Photo credits: Marc Dulude.

Photo credits: Marc Dulude

Optique sur le paysage [Perspective on landscape]

Materials :
Chains, digital prints, mosquito net, motors, video
Dimensions :
Variable
Medium :
Kinetic installation, photography and video

Context :
Artist residency and solo show presented at the Séquence Artists Center in Chicoutimi, February 19th to March 1st, 2009.

The work of Marc Dulude investigates the construction of the landscape by constantly varying the use of a versatile material and adopts blurring strategies. The three narrative proposals presented at the Séquence Artists Center are a testament to the artist’s concern for nature as humans modify it, the role of the artist in nature and the physical phenomenon that influence the gaze. In the first gallery, videos, and photos document the work carried out by Dulude in Scotland. In a video, he rides in the Scottish countryside on his invisible bike whose angular construction sends back a distorted reflection of the landscape that surrounds him, like a moving painting. In the same exhibition, at the very back of the gallery, a long gray mosquito net activated from the ceiling turns slowly on itself. Neon placed behind the canvas accentuates the moiré effects and textures created by the movement, and shapes seem to appear in the mesh. In evenness of surface, Dulude seeks to actively involve the accidents of composition, like a mirror that would send us back something other than our own image. The installation located in the center gallery presents three large, motorized wheels that spin long ball chains around themselves. The piece seems to reproduce nature’s phenomena on a macro scale: vortexes, synchronized movements, etc. Each of the components of the installation, however small, is chromed, thus carrying within it the possibility of reflection.

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