Me, My Hat and My Blue Hand Stéphanie Chabot (Montréal)
May 4 – June 16, 2012. Reception: Friday, May 4, 8:30 to 11:00 PM.
There will be a public artist talk delivered by Stéphanie Chabot just before the reception, beginning at 7:30 PM, Friday, May 4, 2012
PAVED Arts is proud to present Me, My Hat and My Blue Hand, a multimedia installation and the first exhibition to expose the work of Stéphanie Chabot to Saskatoon audiences. The dark psychology that underpins her work, coupled with a trouble-making critical sensibility, lends this project a sense of imperative that is at once serious and playful. From the PAVED Arts publication:
At heart Chabot is compelled by a decidedly feminist-punk impetus to problematize dominant narratives and their attendant explanations, investing in even the most familiar or mundane object a surplus value that resists encapsulation. Understood in the light of an acerbic wit, these objects are not confessional revelations of some festering, repressed trauma-- quite the reverse! At every turn the artist emancipates her subjects, and it is the out-bounding character of what cannot be taken for granted that lends her work a monstrous, uncanny presence. Chabot has alluded to this method of producing a surplus of language, stating in an interview, “I like to think my work contains secrets I haven't discovered yet.”
PAVED Arts acknowledges the support of our members, volunteers and partners, and of our principal funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture, SaskLotteries, the City of Saskatoon and the National Film Board of Canada.
Stéphanie Chabot is a multi-disciplinary artist that works primarily in painting, sculpture and installation. She received her Masters Degree from York University in 2008. Chabot’s work has been shown in many Canadian artist-run centers including La Centrale Gallery Powerhouse, Clark Gallery (both in Montréal) and YYZ in Toronto. Her work has also been presented in the United States, Spain (Sala Riekalde, Bilbao), England (Sassoon Gallery, London) and in Australia (H-Block Gallery, Brisbane). She is a member of the curatorial collective L’Araignée, and has been involved at La Centrale Gallery Powerhouse as both a member of the selection committee (2008- 2011), and the interim artistic coordinator (2010). Chabot currently lives and works in Montréal.
