INHABITING | ISABELLE HAYEUR
06.28.2007 | 09.16.2007

This exhibition consists of a number of photographic works by Montréal artist Isabelle Hayeur, selected from three series. Destinations (from 2003 and 2004), long horizontal photographs depicting landscapes made up of several juxtaposed views, and digitally integrated to form one image; Model Homes (begun in 2004 and still in progress), prefabricated model homes photographed singly, and subtly transformed; and Excavations (2005 and also in progress), suburban homes in their “natural settings” shown with what could be defined as x-rays of the geological substrata underneath them.

Isabelle Hayeur is a lens-based artist known for her photographs and her experimental videos. She has also realized public art commissions, several site-specific installations and photography books. Her work is situated within a critical approach to the environment, urban development and to social conditions. She is particularly interested in the feelings of alienation, uprooting and disenchantment. Since the late 1990s, she has been probing the territories she goes through to understand how our contemporary civilizations take over and fashion their environments. Hayeur, lives and works in Montreal. Hayeur has exhibited in the context of various group and solo exhibitions. Most recent exhibitions include: Les rencontres internationales de la photographie à Arles (2006), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2006), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2005), The Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art in Toronto (2005), The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2004-2005), Casino Luxembourg, forum d'art contemporain (2005) and The Neuer Berliner Kuntsverien in Berlin (2005).