Josée Pellerin proposes a series of photographs inspired by Italo Calvino's novel If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. Like the first chapters of a never-ending story, the artist builds up the universe of unknown characters in layers. Each of the photographs is supported by a poetic text. Josée Pellerin uses the concept of the split screen, which consists of dividing the screen into several parts in order to present different images at the same time. Josée Pellerin's work fascinates, questions and tells of life's little everyday dramas.
Being There
Josée Pellerin
Josée Pellerin lives and works in Montreal. For the past few years, her work has developed in a continuous exchange between the visual and the textual. The displacements between these disciplines produce a hybrid language, a circulation where the narrative modality is mainly the raw material. Montage, sequence, narrative, diverted text orchestrate themselves and lead to links where the meeting of the image is done by temporal leaps, by spatial ruptures. Using her own texts as an anchor, the permutations created by this crossed approach produce relationships that promote the emergence of a fictional space. Josée Pellerin holds a master's degree in visual arts and has training in multimedia. Her work has been presented at events in Quebec, Canada, the United States, France and Mexico. In 2005, she completed an artist residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina and following this stay, she published an artist's book entitled Heureusement qu'il y avait le monde autour de moi in 2006 with Éditions J'ai Vu. Recently, her work has been presented at the Glendon Gallery in Toronto, at the Galerie L'œuvre de l'Autre of the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and at the Galerie Orange in Montreal, which represents her. She lives and works in Montreal where she teaches at the School of Visual and Media Arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
