Current Exhibition

As part of its Support for the Arts Community Program, Cirque du Soleil offers up-and-coming artists the opportunity to exhibit their work at its Montreal International Headquarters. In addition to offering its employees the chance to discover new talents and to contributing to a creative workplace, Cirque du Soleil thus provides these artists with an interesting showcase.

Traces of the Human Impossible - Dominique Paul

Dominique Paul is a visual artist from Quebec who has developed a photography practice over the years on the basis of her solid experience in a variety of specialties, notably video installations.

What characterizes Dominique Paul's photos is their intrinsic ambiguity, which both fascinates and intrigues the viewer. This ambiguity emerges through the myriad manipulations the artist operates on the image. Strange though it may seem, Dominique Paul's photographic essays are free of any digital retouching.

Dominique Paul defies gender representation, by creating androgynous or sexually ambiguous figures. The flesh and blood models, naked at the moment they are photographed, are like screens on which are projected masculine or feminine images, irrespective of the models' age or sex.

First manipulations with light, from projections of ancient faces, undulates and shifts on the moving, elusive bodies of contemporary models who pose for the artist. This doubling of images starts up a dialogue between the animate and inanimate, giving at times to optical illusions that may change with each fresh look at the work.

All of the works displayed in the Traces of the Human Impossible exhibit encompass the full extent of her artistic production over the last ten years.

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