Partial considerations

Portrait, aquarelle sur papier – Watercolour on paper
Danie, 2006
watercolour on paper, 10 x 6 in
Le salon, Guadalajara, aquarelle sur papiers cousus – The living room, watercolour on sewn papers
The living room, Guadalajara, 2008
watercolour on sewn papers, 36 x 54 in
La cuisine, Montréal, aquarelle sur papiers cousus – The kitchen, Montreal, watercolour on sewn papers
The kitchen, Montreal, 2008
watercolour on sewn papers, 36 x 54 in
Aquarelle sur papiers cousus – Watercolour on sewn papers
The basement, Belgo, 2010
watercolour on sewn papers, 26.8 x 36 in
Losanges de papier, aquarelle – Diamond shape papers, watercolour
The basement, Belgo (in progress)
Le sous-sol, Édifice Belgo – The basement, Belgo Building
The basement again, Belgo, 2010
inkjet print, 86 x 111 in
Atelier du VA, Concordia – VA studio, Concordia
Mock-up, VA studio, 2010 (detail, 5 x 7 in)
graphite and crayons on paper, 30 x 22 in

Partial considerations

I seek to see myself and what surrounds me as if I were someone else, and from elsewhere. The segmenting of the image is a way to dissociate, to distance myself, and also to get closer. As much as I paint this specific place, this precise moment of my existence, it is not what I paint. As I reproduce the photographic instance I only consider the space of its details and I cease to think of it as a whole. I use sewing to assemble independently completed fragments of a representation. In this way I link different moments of observation into one single image. This process produces shifts in tonality and form, thus creating a vibrating surface. I scramble perception by fracturing it in order to undo the evidence of things.

Text by Jérôme Delgado, Le Devoir

Text by Françoise Belu, Vie des arts