Left: Françoise Belu, La boîte de Jésus B (détail), mixed media, 25 X 36 X 12 cm
Right: Suzanne Blouin, La petite Suzanne en automne (détail), mixed media, 26 X 40 cm
Exhibition by Françoise Belu and Suzanne Blouin
Entitled Les unes et les autres
at Arts Sutton Gallery
From March 6 to April 11, 2010
Opening: March 6 at 2pm
Guided Tour: March 20 at 2pm
Les unes et les autres is produced through a collaboration between two Montréal artists who share a vision of contemporary art, bound to their profound explorations of the pain of childhood.
“Les unes” shows us the same photograph of Suzanne as a child, repeated many times over on a table of four reversible panels strewn with three-dimensional objects, such as bridal veils and seashells. We see her abandoned against the backgrounds of an American desert, the edge of the Saint Lawrence River, lost in the fields, the snow and elsewhere . . .
“Les autres” presents us with a set of twenty-odd black boxes that display photographs of close friends and family of Françoise as children. The backgrounds to the pictures were created using a variety of techniques and are paired with symbolic found objects, as well as scenes in which there is always the silhouette of an anonymous child.
Opening March 6, 2010. Serie by Françoise Belu. La petite Suzanne (detail), Suzanne Blouin.
Credit: Catherine Audet