Programming

INTERVENTIONS

7 September — 13 October 1996

Josée Fafard and Stéphane Gregory

On fiche le camp

Josée Fafard and Stéphane Gregory's moving installation mainly features a tent as well as various accessories related to the three "catastrophes" (snowstorm, meteorite fall, flood of instant coffee) that alternately parasitized the installation during its exhibition period.

Entitled On fiche le camp, Josée Fafard and Stéphane Gregory's moving installation mainly features a tent as well as various accessories related to the three "catastrophes" (snowstorm, meteorite fall, flood of instant coffee) that alternately parasitized the installation during the period of its exhibition. If the humor is undeniably there, On fiche le camp is nevertheless a project conceived as an artistic experimentation, or as a kind of laboratory whose research focuses on the relationship that we maintain with reality and the various points of view that it is possible to endorse on a given reality. The three disasters executed by the artists can be considered as performances, each one inaugurating a new situation on the site.

Josée Fafard graduated from Concordia University with a B.A. in Fine Arts, and was awarded the institution's first prize for painting and drawing in 1990. Her many solo and group exhibitions include La seule chose qui tourne sur terre, c'est leurs jupes légères, at the Vieux-Palais de Saint-Jérôme, On the Carpet (Maastricht), Gardenor why do fools names, like their faces appear in all places (Eindhoven), Stichting Ultima Thule (Amsterdam).

Stéphane Gregory was born in Peterborough, Ontario. He received his BFA from the Université du Québec à Montréal, and was awarded the university's Printemps scholarship in 1990 and 1992. He has participated in several group exhibitions, including Le plan vert in 1994 and 1995, L'œuvre en valise, Neuf œuvres neuves and Infiniment petit in 1991. Stéphnae Gregory was a weekly visual arts columnist for CKUT Radio McGill.