Sylvie Blocher: Living Pictures (New Work)

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Other associated events: Opening Reception and Curator's and Artist's Talk Thursday, July 12, 8:00 pm

The works in Sylvie Blocher's Living Pictures series comprise large scale projections in site specific installations. Each of these works has been commissioned. Each has been produced in a different location, from Paris to Honolulu, Bombay, Toronto, Luxembourg, and San Francisco, for instance, and now Regina. The Living Pictures series are an aspect of Blocher's larger ULA project about how universal and particular conditions can be made manifest by art made in various locales. Most of Blocher's Living Pictures focus on a selected demographic group: taxi drivers, a football team, university students, nuclear physicists, Silicon Valley millionaires. The artist's individual sessions with each project's volunteer participants are filmed, and then edited and compiled by the artist into a group portrait that describes an always particular Zeitgeist. Among France's most interesting contemporary artists, Blocher is known for work that very intentionally, and overtly, explores concepts of power, knowledge, wealth, sexuality, relationality, otherness, authority, trust, representation, and the political responsibility of art. Her work makes different ways of viewing, experiencing and understanding the world evident. Blocher has been producing the Living Pictures series since 1992. For this new piece, she worked with members of the Regina Police Service during a May 2007 residency.

Sylvie Blocher, Wo/men in Uniform (Installation View), 2007.