Press release, Montreal, March 26 2008
The SAT[Gallery] presents the exhibition Effleurements
Excerpt from text by Nicole Gingras
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Diane Morin continues her exploration of animated objects of her own design, using fragments of typewriters,calculators, knitting machines, record players, toys and musical instruments as well as found objects, electroniccontrol circuits and electroluminescent diodes. She is interested in the shadows projected by moving objects she designs, in the traces they leave in the wake of their slow movements. Desirous of giving or giving back movement to inanimate objects and interested in the way light strikes the objects she selects, Diane Morin furthers her investigation into light as a means of revelation: shadow, trace, imprint, image, form, movement. Her work Capteurs d’ombres (“Shadow Catchers”, 2006-08) is a visual and sound installation made up of various items attached to the gallery wall, each showing forms in movement: choreographies of unusual objects and shadow
plays. Plunged into darkness, these kinetic sound sculptures come alive when subtly and discreetly lit by moments of flashing, twinkling or pulsing light. Sounds help lead the viewer into a space in which time appears to be suspended.
Nicole Gingras
Exhibition Curator