In Conversation, was part of the Group Exhibition, Shifting Sites, which focussed on innovative uses of photography to represent the body and land.

Curated by Andrea Kunard

 The impetus for In Conversation came out of my lengthy travels in South-East Asia. Slides from priests at the Cao Dai Temple in Vietnam, and a movie poster from downtown Phnom Penh in Cambodia are projected onto the interior of my home in Montreal. The projections were then photographed, printed on transparencies and encased in large metal lightboxes. The use of lightboxes, enabled me to create multiple, overlapping views of my experiences, collapsing time, space, and memory into a single image which, in turn, is projected back to the viewer.

Thus, the two large scale lightboxes replace the ‘original’ event, as defined by the camera, and the inclusion of my ghost-like appearance and shadow accentuates the ephemeral nature of the photograph itself and the sense of my own changing awareness and displacement.

Captions:
In Conversation (Cao Dai Temple)
Duratrans (Photographic Transparency), encased in SlimLine metal lightbox, fluorescent tube lights, 40” x 60” (101 x 152cm)
In Conversation (Phnom Pehn Movie Poster)
Duratrans (Photographic Transparency), encased in SlimLine metal lightbox, fluorescent tube lights, 40” x 60” (101 x 152cm)

Exhibitions:
In Conversation was part of the group exhibition Shifting Sites at CMCP (Canadian Museum of Canadian Art), Ottawa, ON (2000)
Mount Allison University Gallery, Sackville, NB (2001)
Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC (2001)
Yukon Arts Centre Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon (2002)
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, North York, Ontario, ON 2003)
Was part of the Orientalism & Ephemera Exhibit, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON Curated by Jamelie Hassan (2007)

Review:
Mouvance et Mutations, CVPhoto, 2000, François Dion