Éliane Excoffier
in Percé (Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé National Park)
EXHIBITION
D’autres fables (Other Fables)
Éliane Excoffier, Sutton, Québec | elianeexcoffier.com/en
“D’autres fables is a good example of the intimate and poetic world of my work. It consists of a game between what is real and its representation. Replete with subtle elements, it demands a close look. Feathers, hairs, materials, textiles and sometimes even a furtive human presence. To distinguish between what is true and what is false. An exultant photographic theatricality. Each of the images constructed the way a director sets the stage, singular and enigmatic at the same time. The goal being to orchestrate settings, subjects and light – in order to tell a tale (or tales). A story transcends the whole, but it is not explicit. Each composition having more than one interpretation.” – Éliane Excoffier
Exhibition at Rencontres
D’autres fables (Other Fables)
Éliane Excoffier is a visual artist living and working in Sutton, Québec. She holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and art history from Université de Montréal. Over the past 25 years she has participated in numerous group and individual exhibits, both in Canada and abroad. Her works can be found in public, museum and corporate collections. Recently she created some public-art pieces as part of the provincial program for integrating the arts into architecture. Her artistic practice is essentially photographic, with a particular interest in the history of photography, its techniques and its tradition. She uses both digital technology and silver processes, sometimes with one procedure referring to the other, which creates a fruitful soil for any number of experimentations.