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{ anatomies || comparées }
science (véritable)
(true) science { comparative || anatomies }

(2005)
University of Sherbrooke.
curated by Johanne Broulliet
catalog essay by Marie Perrault
press release by Johanne Broulliet

(2006)
Quartier Éphémère
essay by Manon Blanchette

images from the Darling Foundry
catalog download (pdf)

(true) science {comparative || anatomies} is part of a 10-year investigation into the persistence of The Romantic Condition.

The work in this exhibition evolves from the fictional premise of a collection of oddly formed heart specimens. Each heart is particularly distorted as if a lifetime of emotional experience has left physical imprints––distensions, mutations, unrestrained growth and scars––on the intimate surface of the organ.

The works are first sculpted in clay, then scanned, covered with layers of digital painting, output as photographs and then applied as surface to a final sculptural form. They are presented in three parts: as formal portraits, groupings of related fragments and a large projection with muti-layered sound. Each partition overlaps the others, cross-referencing Victorian mementos, medical specimens, and pixiellated abstractions.