Februray 19 to 24 april, 2022

bibliothèques de Québec

Double :

Double : provokes a meeting between the spectator and an elsewhere that challenges the real. The exhibitions forming part of Double : invite the public to experience its various manifestations filtered through the unsettling medium of Freudian uncanniness. The exhibitions are in four locations, where each artist claims ownership of her own expression and reveals her own likeness.

Laurence Dauphinais uses a prism of uncertainty to portray our confinement in an unspecified elsewhere. The locations suggested in the works appear indeterminate, both vast and secluded. The figures, imprisoned on the other side of the mirror, move in an uncertain space.

Anouk Desloges queries the notion of desire in her works. Between rapture and fascination, the unslaked urge for more presupposes tensions tracing the horizon of desire. The works here unfold the dreamlike and melancholy experience of the pursuit of the Other. 

Mathilde Bois’s exhibition examines her interest in the fleeting and elusive experience of the gaze. Her pieces, seemingly in the process of disappearing, can only be guessed at, as the countenances of strangers appear to emerge. Silent faces, impersonal and almost ghostly, take form. Blurry masks reflect interiority that escapes a first glance.

Gabrielle Brochu reflects on twin identity. Her pieces explore the paradox of individuality formed in its resemblance to another. The artist expresses the indefinite identity that results from being part of a duo and in perpetual search of oneself. Fluctuating between fusion with and division from this second presence, a we-me emerges, divided and diffused.