Rituals of identity, tactics of resistance (2002-04)
These different series, produced for specific creative or exhibition contexts, present portraits, put together from multiple fragments, which juxtapose symbolic and mythological elements of traditional cultures against references to today’s world. To construct my images I used collage and photomontage; I used and reinterpreted symbols, codes, and clichés from traditional cultures, popular imagery, and art […]
Why argue with words when you can get along with symbols? (2003)
This photographic series, based on an essay by Michel Lefebvre, was produced in Poznan, Poland, for the interdisciplinary festival Inner Spaces 2003. It addresses the issue of language and communication, which is exacerbated in a foreign city. When words no longer mean anything, symbols take on a whole new significance. With a sense of humour, […]
Civilities (2003)
To view the web work today, it is necessary to install a plugin that allows to activate the Flash software with which the original project was made. http://www.agencetopo.qc.ca/civilites/ The NT2 Laboratory for Research on Digital Arts and Literature has created an enriched file for the project in its directory. https://nt2.uqam.ca/fr/repertoire/civilites-civilities Civilities is a modular and […]
Sous le Sahel (2001)
This installation is the result of a collective creation project by a dozen international artists, most of them using digital sound and image technologies, in January 2000 in Burkina Faso. Initiated by the French association Les arts improvisés, the Festival de l’Eau’s main theme was an encounter between traditional arts and technological arts, through ephemeral […]
Cosmogonies (2001)
Cosmogonies is first of all a photographic installation presented in a laundromat, as part of the “Tour de Villeneuve” project, where 13 artists/photographers from Atelier FOVEA invested 13 neighbourhood businesses with images, installations and photographic interventions. Montreal Mois de la Photo, 2001 The TOPO art centre then produced a web adaptation of the visual installations. […]
Liquidation, a plurimedia photonovel (1998 – 2001)
A scientific formula was stolen from Ricard Entreprises to liquidate the global debt! Thus begins the story of the photonovel LIQUIDATION, a multimedia work co-created with the author Michel Lefebvre. Our theme, which gives the title to the photonovel, takes a half-critical, half-amused look at our lives and our cities where we never stop liquidating […]
Carnages (1999)
“Carnage, the work conceived by Mitsiko Miller and Eva Quintas, has several levels of texts, including Alice, the one that could be linked more directly to the photo-novel. Straight out of pantomime, Alice and her acolytes take part in a narrative strongly inspired by children’s stories, to which reference is made explicitly, already in the […]
Les lieux propices (1992-96)
Memorial (1995) La mer, le blanc, l’insulaire (1995) Le plat pays (1993) Les lieux propices (1992) The corpus Propitious Places was developed in the form of several series, usually presented as installations. Exploring the imagery of territory and the appropriation of place, each series uses more or less the same elements: portraits of solitary figures […]
Ces jeux que les gens jouent (1991)
On the theme of inclusion and exclusion in our relationships with others, this photographic series interweaves scenes taken from board games with those from everyday life, in which the need for love and the fear of rejection interact. The premise is that, in our relationships with others, we often act and react according to two […]
Portraits / Gossip of Montreal artists (1990)
I sometimes meet him in the corridors of museums or universities, most often in the hubbub of a vernissage or a tavern. Whether he is (or think he is) rich and famous or tortured by wine and bohemia matters little: he is the man-artist, a mysterious, marginal, or eccentric being, a mythical representation of creative […]