CV122 - Manon Labrecque, des [ré] animations — Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 122 - Night Rounds (Winter 2023) 
Exhibitions (Individual article, digital version)

Manon Labrecque, des [ré] animations
Maison des arts de Laval
01.05.2022 — 03.07.2022

— Sylvain Campeau

After ten years designing “utterly original” kinetic visual and animation devices, Manon Labrecque has taken her expertise even further, in Sylvain Campeau’s view. Each work in the exhibition [ré]animations forms “an autonomous world, a sort of unprecedented mechanics, and opens to an incommensurable scene.” Larger and with the addition of sound components, they establish “an almost-theatrical space.” Campeau describes some of the installations in detail, dwelling on their affective dimension. Onto mechanical devices of yesteryear are grafted an existential reflection. “The machines,” he writes, “bear the marks of this attitude toward inhabiting the world, through movements, and breathing upon things, and moments that persist.”

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Language : English & French
Digital Version : PDF, 1.4 Mb

Bibliographical Notice

Sylvain Campeau, “Manon Labrecque, des [ré] animations” in Ciel variable, No. 122, “Night Rounds”, Montreal, 2023, p. 84-85.

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