Marie-Josée Laframboise
Out of Place / Non lieu : Lise Beaudry, Isabelle Hayeur, Marie-Josée Laframboise
Melissa Bennett. Edited by Patrick Shaw Cable
Working with ideas of place and the imaginary, three Canadian francophone artists create works that portray ephemeral places that exist only in the imagination. Isabelle Hayeur’s photographs are manipulated to include fictional elements that complicate perceptions of iconic places. Marie-Josée Laframboise transforms site-specific installations made of undulating iridescent netting into imaginary landscapes. Meditating on the temporal character of a site, Lise Beaudry photographs the surfaces of frozen lakes as white abstractions. The accompanying essay explores the viewer’s experience of ethereal and ambiguous environments predicated on “no place” or “non lieu.” In English and French.
Art Gallery of Hamilton (10/2011) 80 pp 36 col. ill. 7 x 9 in softcover 978-1-897407-11-0 $30.00 Can. $35.00 U.S. (24 €)
Marie-Josée Laframboise: Network Installations / Ensembles réticulaires
Eve-Lyne Beaudry, Andrea Fatona, Joan Stebbins, Marie-Josée Laframboise
Artist Marie-Josée Laframboise departs from traditional notions of cartography by constructing original environments out of preexisting spaces. These mixed-media sculptures draw attention to the elasticity of seemingly rigid architectural and geographical boundaries. Merging her interests in mathematics, architecture and drawing, she subverts our preconceived notions of space (and place) and the ways in which the collective movement of our bodies negotiate territory. Collaboratively produced by three institutions, this first monograph on the work of the artist contains two essays and an interview. Marie-Josée Laframboise has exhibited nationally and internationally most recently at The Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain de Nice. In English and French.
L'artiste Marie-Josée Laframboise s'éloigne des notions traditionnelles de la cartographie en s'immergeant dans des espaces qu'elle construit à partir d'espaces existants. Ses sculptures de techniques mixtes attirent l'attention sur l'élasticité de limites architecturales et géographiques apparemment rigides. Par la fusion de ses intérêts pour la mathématique, l'architecture et le dessin, elle bouleverse nos idées préconçues de l'espace (et du lieu) et les façons dont nos corps traversent le territoire dans leur déplacement collectif. Abondamment illustrée, cette publication comprend un entretient avec l’artiste, ainsi que deux essais originaux. L’œuvre de Marie-Josée Laframboise a fait sujet d’expositions au Canada et en Europe, notammant au Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain de Nice. En français et anglais.
Musée d’art de Joliette / Southern Alberta Art Gallery / The Ottawa Art Gallery (03/2011)
144 pp 100 ill. 9 x 6 in softcover 978-2-921801-48-5 $30.00 Can. $35.00 U.S. (24 €)
