Tämän hetkinen vierastaiteilija / Current guest artist
Virginie Laganière
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1.9.-31.12.2011.
Virginie Laganière works in the field of visual and media arts where considerations about built spaces, socio-politics, human psyche, unsolved phenomena and realities shaped by insecurity become integral elements in an elaboration of site specific environments. She tries to identify failures or gaps that occur in familiar contexts and destabilize them to explore our relationship to the world or to engage with certain hidden realities. Her site-specific installations include sculptural, architectural, sound, light and video elements.
Since
2003, Laganière's works have been presented internationally, and she
has been awarded several residencies (Canada, Mexico, Switzerland,
Finland and Spain) and grants from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres
du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Her research in Finland will get its initial sparks from simple
observations and by documenting numerous examples of architectural
remains from an another era, such as modernist architecture.
Influenced by futures studies, Reyner Banham’s essay on The New
Brutalism (1955) and the utopian idea of the garden city based on
the novel Looking backward by Edward Bellamy (1888), she
will use these typologies found in Finland to imagine
other scenarios and map possible futures of our built environment
of tomorrow (as the Tapiola neighborhood for example).
For more information: http://virginielaganiere.webs.com/worksprojets.htm
virgilag(at)hotmail.com
Post Natural, 2011.
The residency is produced in cooperation with Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and is supported in Finland by the Arts Council of Finland and EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art.
