Laurence Hervieux-Gosselin
in Paspébiac
EXHIBITION
Fly-On-The-Wall
Laurence Hervieux-Gosselin, Montreal, Québec | laurencehg.com
Fly-On-The-Wall takes place on the set of a reality television show that is similar to Big Brother, where participants are isolated in houses filled with cameras. The photographs reveal the premises through an offbeat perspective, directing the gaze at deserted spaces and characters represented in interstitial moments. Far from the type of dramatic intensity that is commonly on display in this television genre, a liminal universe is uncovered, illuminating the close relationship between the private and the public, authentic self and crafted persona, art and popular culture, nature and artifice, fiction and reality.
Exhibition at Rencontres
Fly-On-The-Wall
Born in 1991, Laurence Hervieux-Gosselin is an artist and photographer based in Montreal. She studied scriptwriting and communications at Université du Québec à Montréal, holds a BFA in Photography from Concordia University and an MFA in Art Photography from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. She is the winner of the 2021 Prix Lynne-Cohen. Recently her work has been shown at La Castiglione (Montreal, 2020), at Uqbar (Berlin, 2018) and at the China Millennium Monument (Beijing, 2018).
Her narrative approach to photography is concerned with the influence of storytelling on our perception of the world. While some of her photographs are premeditated stagings, others stem from research and discoveries in the field. Her series reveal a parallel world that is both familiar and strange, inviting new interpretations of reality.