Dominique Blain

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Dominique Blain lives and works in Montral. Her main mediums are photography, installations and sculpture. Social and political history is at the core of her work, driven by the need to understand where she comes from and what place she occupies in a world in constant turmoil.

She is particularly interested in our perception of reality, interrogating the tensions between objectivity and subjectivity, perception and representation and raising awareness on sociopolitical issues.

She has exhibited in several North-American and European cities, as well as in Australia (Sidney Biennale, 1992) and she has made several public artworks in Quebec.

This catalogue invites the reader to discover four artworks exhibited by the Canadian Cultural Centre of Paris: Monumenta, a set of photographs with an installation; Drives, five screens showing videos on the subject of migration; Aether, prints on paper featuring various skies, and Mirabilia, auto-lighted glass blocks displaying a cut-out shape in the middle representing an artwork that has been stolen or destroyed.

Author Bio

Dominique Blain studied at the New York Film Academy (1996) then at the Beaux-Arts in Montral. She was awarded the Prix Paul-mile Borduas (2014).

Ami Barack - Exhibition curator, art critic and professor based in Paris.

Catherine Bdard - Associate director of the Canadian Cultural Centre of Paris, art historian and exhibition curator.

Grard Wajcman - Writer, psychanalyst, lecturer at the Universit Paris VII.

Louise Dery - Associate professor at the Art History Department of the UQAM.