© Yan Giguère
Session 33
Yan Giguère
On June 15, 2023 at 7 pm
— Facebook event
Yan Giguère's artistic practice is characterized by formal, narrative, and poetic associations between photographs as they are set in space. In his work, he consistently strives to create an open-ended whole that underlines and questions the coexistence of different layers of reality. The result is a veritable flood of images, formats, meanings, cognitive and sensory overloads of information that envelope the onlooker.
From 2017-2019 Yan Giguère did four excursions to the former town of Grand-Mère (now absorbed into the city of Shawinigan, Québec) to document the desacralized and abandoned St-Stephen Anglican parish and its surroundings. The absence of people in this church echoes the ghostly town center, which is filled with closed shops and deserted businesses, emphasizing how community life and industrial boom and busts are intimately linked.
For Session 33, the artist, whose practice is founded on an exceptional love and knowledge of the photographic medium, will share his images captured by means of about twenty analog cameras dating from various eras and approximately fifteen different types of film.
Yan Giguère lives and works in Montreal where he has had several solo exhibitions, including Chavirer at center VOX (2001), Bienvenue at Galerie B-312 (2002), Choisir at Occurrence (2007), Attractions at Optica (2009) and Visites libres at CLARK (2013). A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Musée d'art de Joliette in 2016. His work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the Desjardins collection, the Hydro-Québec art collection, the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d'art de Joliette and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.
Dazibao thanks the artist for his generous collaboration as well as its advisory committee for their support.
Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal.
Dazibao acknowledges that it is located on the unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá: ka Nation and that Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations, and today, is home to a diverse population of Indigenous as well as other peoples. Guided by ethics of respect, listening, and awareness, Dazibao commits to a continued reflection regarding the deep-rooted and systemic challenges tied to accessibility and inclusivity in the arts and beyond, and endeavors to apply such reflections to all aspects of its activities and governance.