Mélanie Boucher, Bernard Lamarche and Yann Pocreau — Gwenaël Bélanger. Casser l’image / Fragmenting the Image

Gwenaël Bélanger’s artistic practice is marked by an absolute quest to find the inherent simplicity of things. Since 1999, the Montreal-based artist has drawn from the most mundane reality for inspiration to create his works. Playing with the limits of the perception, he uses graphic and photographic processes to exploit the interaction between what we see and what we imagine, or what we recall, in our daily activities. Like an anthropologist of images, he is interested as much in the media image as in the cultural object, both of which carry and convey connotations, denotations and references. The publications’ subtitle refers to one of Bélanger’s works wherein the camera continually revolves upon itself at high speed until something falls. The viewer then gradually identifies a multitude of mirrors has come crashing to the ground and then just as quickly disappeared. This publication is a first career overview and accompanies a nationally touring exhibition.

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