Vues d’un autre côté (Views from another side)
Postcards from the Magdalen Islands revisited with a new series of 37 postcards, portraying drawings and short texts.
Îles-de-la-Madeleine
2011-2012
Aerial views, peaceful landscapes, colourful houses, boats anchored in port, local dishes, island wildlife, monumental cliffs, beaches as far as the eye can see. These are categories of postcards from the Magdalen Islands, whose images are at the same time ordinary and emblematic. On many of them, the colours are exaggerated: the blues in the sky are far too blue and only exist on postcards. Other important elements, such as fog, wind, or people, rarely appear in the images, even though they are an undeniable part of life there.
For a summer, I collected these postcards. I drew the images only partially, as partially as these islands allow themselves to be known during the time of one season. At the same time, I was also collecting memories, little stories and anecdotes. The result is a new series of postcards, in which the images that I borrowed coexist with fragments of an intimate island experience.
Presented as part of Colis suspect at the artist-run centre Admare, at the Magdalen Islands airport, from July 14 to August 24, 2012.
