Frédéric Lamontagne
Frédéric Lamontagne. aller.stop.non.oui.peut-être responds to Hommage à Etty Hillesum
It is the physicality and movement embodying the book Hommage à Etty Hillesum that led to this artist's response. Perching his book precariously on a stand, Frédéric Lamontagne highlights the awkward position of his book where he intuitively and visually presents the “playful and poetical way his relationship to conventions, institutions and structures." His intentions are to share through ambiguous narratives moments of discomfort, vulnerability and confusion experienced within failed social interactions, of rules and framing. He points to the figures presented in his book as awkward in their environment as their social interactions demonstrate a certain discomfort.
It is the physicality and movement embodying the book Hommage à Etty Hillesum that led to this artist's response. Perching his book precariously on a stand, Frédéric Lamontagne highlights the awkward position of his book where he intuitively and visually presents the “playful and poetical way his relationship to conventions, institutions and structures." His intentions are to share through ambiguous narratives moments of discomfort, vulnerability and confusion experienced within failed social interactions, of rules and framing. He points to the figures presented in his book as awkward in their environment as their social interactions demonstrate a certain discomfort.
Frédéric Lamontagne studied Arts Visuels at Cégep Sainte-Foy in Québec City before his present studies in the BFA in Print Media at Concordia.
Video edited by Tod Van Dyk. Footage shot by Isabelle Fleurelien.
Book photos taken by Isabelle Fleurelien, 2018.
Text based on written and spoken interviews between curator Melinda Reinhart and Frédéric Lamontagne.