[Galérie Art Mûr - Montreal, Canada]




nature is the real church 2009

'modern camouflage' uses masking, camouflage and excessive mimicry to act and to become the other, to transform, transpose and reflect on imitation, theatrics and simulation through performance and intervention.
This project is a soulful search for the ‘urban primitive’ in all of us that examines our relationship to our environment through the physical body, the cultural body, and the social body in which we find nourishment and sustainability.

Photography’s relationship to reality has been irrevocably transformed by the numerous ways in which images are now constructed in a media context.
My images are digitally altered, theatrically arranged, artificially staged and fabricated. Always polarized between the civilized (here, our urban environment] and the primitive (there, the landscape outside in the wild), our relationship to this terrain is omnipresent and this inter-dependence is a curious but all-pervading psychological, social and cultural bond that binds us.

More poignantly, even though we inhabit and create more urban spaces, our spatial relationship to nature is affecting and even more now that we are faced with environmental disaster and the future of the planet. It is this part of reality that I find emotionally moving.

I am also interested in how manifestations of this fear act both on a personal and political level, and are captured in the popular imagination and its surroundings. I am also interested in how fear is constituted and negotiated and how these concerns through media culture are articulated.