• Home
  • Programming

    Exhibitions

    Events & Tours

    Publications

    Digital Projects

  • Collections and Research

    Search Collections

    Artworks

    Outdoor Art

    Archives

    Research Projects

  • The Gallery

    About

    Visit

    News

    Support

    Contact

    Online Bookstore

  • Subscribe
Menu
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

Search Results

← Bookstore

Geneviève Cadieux

1999 / ISBN 0-88865-608-4
50 pages, b/w and colour, paperback

$10
Add to cart

Exhibition catalogue from Geneviève Cadieux at the Belkin (17 April–13 June 1999) with texts in English and French by Scott Watson, Chantal Pontbriand and Laurence Louppe. The exhibition features a new video-projection, Paramour (1998), produced for the Belkin by Cadieux. The work is based on an archetypal dialogue between a man and a woman, from a passage in The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras. The work startles with its seeming declaration that love and desire are impossible, but then opens up into other issues in the show and to the cinematic underpinnings of Cadieux’s photographs. Cadieux’s works demand a certain endurance from their viewers. They provoke strong, conflicting emotions (fear/euphoria, desire/repression, articulation/silene) and raise questions about the body, desire and gesture that all point to a crisis in subjectivity. These very large scale images of the human body, face and landscape impose a kind of claustrophobia—forcing us too close—but also promising an oceanic feeling of release and openness.

  • Geneviève Cadieux

    Artist
    Geneviève Cadieux (Canadian, b. 1955) is a photographer based in Montreal. Often cinematic, she incorporates audiovisual elements into her large-scale installations. Cadieux’s work explores topics of identity, gender and the human body, presenting the body as a landscape, focusing on small details (such as a mouth, bruise or scar) in extreme close-ups. Cadieux is also interested in the way that art integrates into the urban environment. Many of her works are currently installed in public spaces. Cadieux holds a BFA from the University of Ottawa and teaches studio art at Concordia University. She is the recipient of the 2011 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts.

    Read More

  • Laurence Louppe

    Writer
  • Chantal Pontbriand

    Curator
  • Scott Watson

    Curator

    Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).

    Read More

Related

  • Exhibition

    17 April 1999 – 13 June 1999

    Geneviève Cadieux

    This exhibition features a new video-projection, Paramour (1998), produced for the Belkin Gallery by Montréal artist Geneviève Cadieux. The work is based on an archetypal dialogue between a man and a woman, from a passage in The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras. The work startles with its seeming declaration that love and desire are impossible, but then opens up into other issues in the show and to the cinematic underpinnings of Cadieux’s photographs.

    [more]

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

University of British Columbia

1825 Main Mall

Vancouver, British Columbia,

Canada V6T 1Z2 Map

xʷməθkʷəy̍əm | Musqueam Territory

Contact

Telephone: +1 (604) 822-2759

Email: belkin.gallery@ubc.ca

Admission is free

Tours are available

  • Tue 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • Wed 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • Thu 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • Fri 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • Sat 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • Sun 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • Monday & Holidays Closed

Programming

  • Exhibitions
  • Events
  • Publications

Research and Study

  • Collection and Archives
  • Study

The Gallery

  • About
  • Visit
  • Online Bookstore
  • Accessibility
  • News
  • Support
  • Artist Submissions
  • Contact

Terms of Use

Enter your email to subscribe to our newsletter

Subscribe