Histoires à tirer par les oreilles
Price:
30,00$
Type:
Artist's book
Artist(s):
Lucie Duval
Author(s):
Language(s):
French and English
Curator(s):
Specifications:
170 pages, 7 x 9 in., 2010
ISBN:
9782923612195

Histoires à tirer par les oreilles

This book project was developed around a common object that aroused various thoughts in me. Gloves for workers "made in China" found in packages in all hardware stores. As a result of globalisation, everything is manufactured at lower cost in China to the detriment of local workers. The object becomes contradictory: workers' gloves (made in China) versus unemployed people here.

These one hundred and fifty rabbits were made at a rate of about one a day. In addition to what has been written about my motivation, something new has emerged. Unconsciously, the rabbit made on a particular day reveals something about my state at that moment, about my view of the world. Logbook.

This publication is not a catalogue, but an object where images and words will intertwine, not without shocks, where particular care is given to the way of "giving to see". Never forget that these rabbits are in a way mutilated. Underneath a candid, naive and sweet appearance, fingers had to be cut off (those of the gloves), sewn and mended (which is reminiscent of certain working conditions in factories).

These teddy bears are scarred rabbits. The words will be all the sharper for it. Stories to be pulled by the ears!

Lucie Duval

Lucie Duval was born in Mont-Laurier. She lives and works in Quebec. She studied at the École des beaux-arts de Toulouse and obtained the Diplôme national supérieur d'expression plastique (DNSEP) in 1983. Her work revolves around an interference between what is read and what is seen, a journey where words play with objects and images. She has exhibited regularly in North America, Europe and Asia. Her work is part of the art loan collection of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. She is represented by Galerie Isabelle Gounod in Paris.

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