Josée Pedneault
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Institutional Recommendation Program
update: 2019.10.24
Josée Pedneault
| Participating Project | Institutional Recommendation Program |
|---|---|
| Activity Based | Canada |
| City | Tokyo |
| Period | 2016.1 - 2016.3 |
Purpose of the residency
During my stay at Tokyo Wonder Site, I am working on a new series of work using a technique inspired by photograms. However, instead of working in the darkroom with photo paper, I expose commercial colour paper under the sun for days, weeks or months. Colours slowly fade leaving a positive trace of the object or shape placed initially on the surface. By going back to photography's most primitive form, I am reflecting on the process of photography as way to registered an image onto a light-sensitive paper. This technique allows for an uncommonly long period of time being recorded within an image; this relation time/image is also part of my research and preoccupations.
Plan during the residency
In a first series, I work chronologically by choosing each day an object from my environment. The object is then placed on a paper and left under the sun for the remaining time of the residency. Images created in the beginning of the three months residency are the most bleached out by the sun, whereas the ones made at the end of the residency will barely show the trace of the object. The slow gradation of colors gives a very physical sense of time in the work. The work also generates a tension between the delicacy of small daily objects and the astronomical forces of the sun used to create the images. In a second series, I focus more directly on the cosmic movement, instrumental in the creation of the work. Shapes and masks placed over the paper are shifted slowly everyday, using a pivotal systems. Loops and rotations result in intricate images that remind of maps of planets, satellite revolutions, and other celestial movements.
