Diane Landry, detail, Flying School, 2000, sound installation with automation. Collection of the artist
Exhibitions
Diane Landry:
The Defibrillators
Contemporary Feature and Davies Foundation Galleries
5 September - 13 December
A significant artist in Québec with a growing international reputation, Diane Landry is celebrated for her oeuvres mouvelles, works that blend the temporality of performance with the spatial dimension of installation art and the bemused materiality of the ready-made. She uses diverse materials including umbrellas, salad spinners, MIDI computers, plastic bottles, halogen lights, washing machines and harmonicas to produce mechanistic syntheses of motion, light and sound. Poetic and profoundly beautiful, Landry’s art offers an emotional re-start - an electro-shock of affect - awakening us to the span of possibility and the dreamy quiver of time.
This first major overview of the work of Diane Landry, curated by Eve-Lyne Beaudry and produced and circulated by the Musée d’art de Joliette, presents works made between 1989 and 2008, including the artist’s sculptural, electronic and recent video productions, along with documentation of her early performance pieces. For Kingston audiences, the artist will present a special performance, La Machine à foudre, followed by a reception for the exhibition on Wednesday 30 September, 7pm.
Jan Allen
Curated by Eve-Lyne Beaudry, and produced and circulated by the Musée d’art de Joliette, this exhibition is presented with the support of the Museums Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Kingston and the Kingston Arts Council through the City of Kingston Arts Fund, and the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, Queen’s University.