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October 7, 2011
The 12th presentation of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal is resonating with the theme proposed by guest curator Anne-Marie Ninacs: Lucidity. Inward Views. The exhibitions, the publication, the colloquium, the special events and the educational activities are all organized around this theme.
The blurb says that Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal features:
artists who, in a certain way, turn their cameras towards themselves and conceive of photography as an introspective process, an opportunity for meditation, a mode of consciousness, even a means of revealing the unconscious. In doing so, they draw our attention to forces that we find it difficult to recognize but that nevertheless govern our actions – the illusion of identity, fear, death, anger, not knowing – and provide us with opportunities to reflect on acceptance, compassion, creativity, and the freedom to act.
Lucidity means inner clarity, a “transparency of mind,” and so is the psychological meaning given to the term lucidity. An example:
Alfonso Arzapalo, Compositions silencieuses, from the series horizons sensibles.
Whereas human interventions in the public space--such as railway stations--- often “make noise” and “move air around,” Arzapalo's photographic interventions deliberately mediates in such spaces. Arzapalo, an artist (video, photography, text, performance) and architect, poetizes the relationship that the body has within urban space.
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