A screening Favreau’s latest video works , in discussion with Boshko Boskovic, RU Program Director.
Tuesday February 10, 2015
6:30PM (free and open to the public)
Residency Unlimited
360 Court Street (enter church building through main entrance )
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Please join us for an evening dedicated to Julie Favreau’s latest videos and her work process. Videos are often the starting point of her sculptural and photographic installations. At the crossroad between visual art and choreography, Favreau’s practice consists at the outset of gestures invented out of objects (sculptures) or, conversely, sculptures stemming form gestures. As a result the viewer is confronted to worlds of symbols where dreams, myths and the unconscious converge inducing a state of heightened sensory awareness, inviting concentration, focus, and intimacy.
Tonight’s screening will present video works realized in 2014 by Favreau in isolated residency contexts far removed from cities. Both works in progress, these videos are a window into Favreau’s modes of interaction with her surroundings and exploration of illusion and virtuality. To begin with, «an entire day an entire month» (2014) was filmed in at Project Y, a modernist type house built atop a lake in the North of Quebec province. In September 2014, Favreau resided at the Hospitalfield Art residency (Scotland) where she realized a film starring the choreographer Caroline Dubois who performs on a tight rope that slowly transforms into a virtual drawing in space. This interest in movement has triggered the development of a new body of sculptures and photographs that will be exhibited for the first time at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival in August 2015.
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This event is supported by Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and the Cultural Services of the Québec Government Office in New York
About the artist:
Julie Favreau was recently awarded the 2014 Pierre-Ayot Prize in Visual Arts by the City of Montreal in partnership with the Association of Contemporary Galleries (AGAC). An RU artist in residency in 2012, Favreau has presented/performed her work in many international contexts. In 2011, she was selected to participate in the MACM Québec Triennial. In 2012, she was awarded the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art and was long listed for the Sobey Art Award.
Represented by the Montreal Gallery Battat Contemporary, Favreau benefits from a 3 years residency at the Darling Foundry (Montreal) where she is currently preparing work for the upcoming Edinburgh Art Festival (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art), Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard (Paris), festival Actoral (Marseille), Battat Contemporary, and Darling Foundry, Montréal.
