sarah rooney

SPRING EXHIBITION

IMPULSION DE RÉSEAU // NETWORK IMPULSE
Luce Meunier | Sarah Rooney | Monica Tap
Commissaire / Curator Jakub Zdebik
GALERIE R3, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, QC
8 – 27 mars 2018

PROJECT

THERE’S SOMETHING OUTLANDISH ABOUT BRINGING THE OCEAN INDOORS

THERE’S SOMETHING OUTLANDISH ABOUT BRINGING THE OCEAN INDOORS

This project is part of an on-going dialogue between painting and photography through a layering of registers. As a witness to subtle spatial conundrums, the works in this series are reflections on shifts in distance, immediacy, and time.

Suspended Emulsions investigate ways of putting pressure on the viewing experience. Photographs formalized as precisely scaled prints immerse the viewer in the foam-like space of the image. Touching on the challenges of global proximity and distance, they invite us to visually inhabit the materiality of the print surface as well as the landscape of the in-between at the edge of the ocean, making visible a layering of potential planes. The Capsule paintings are like artefacts of time surveillance—forms between monolith and sail.

The oceanic elements in these works put forward an opening for a seeping through of the unseen and the unforeseen. Encapsulated in the encounter between painting and photography is the ebb and flow of the tides, where seeing is defined as much by erasure as it is by presence