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Tanya St-Pierre: Artist's Statement
Origins: installation and fiction
Since 2001, I have produced nine chronicles: the "Absurdus Medecina Hospitalis (AMH) Chronicles," which investigated relations between installation and modes of narration[1].
I was concerned with the intricacies of the art work with reality (as fiction as a form of representation of reality). Accordingly, issues, themes and evocations were systematically related to current human and social condition. The " AMH Chronicles," are all proposing a glance on various social troubles, on body representation, the ill and defective body, through the deformed glasses of scientific and medical representations or understandings.
Most of the chronicles involves various types of sound presentation to accentuate the narrative, and the temporal proposition.
Recent axis: exploded narration and fiction
My investigation of fiction brought me a certain approach to storytelling and writing extracted from a total and determinist fictitious, diegetic, proposition, to aim towards more poetic propositions. These recent propositions offer fragments of fiction that are more mixed with the visual object and never completely explained.
One finds, indeed, in my recent productions of digital prints and paintings, traces left by stories, fiction, characters and, especially, figures - as icons or symbols - more abstract and more subtle at the same time, which both survive and live within the images, within a more raw constellation of elements.
Recent axis: performance
Another form of my visual art work is the performance duo Noïzefer CWU which investigates sound and action. I work with sound artist Philippe-Aubert Gauthier to enact a language that is aggressive and corrosive. Our language uses waste, construction, noise and speech to address questions of cultural alienation and social taboos.
[1] Redaction of short stories for various installations ("Absurdus Medecina Hospitalis' (AMH) Chronicles"), writing of a novel; elaboration of an artist's book (including the novel); wall integration of the novel written by T. St-Pierre for the "Flying Baby" (presented as a wallpaper) in the "Flying Baby" installation; theatricality; writing of a song, and the experimental integration in a sound track, for an immersive installation.