Dominique Rey : Three exhibitions including a solo at VU Broadcast and Production Center of Photography in Quebec City
THE VOID BETWEEN OUR BODIES at VU in Quebec City
February 24th - March 26th, 2023
Opening this week at VU in Quebec City, Le vide entre nos corps (The void between our bodies) is a solo exhibition of photo and sculptural works that unravel the myriad transformations of early motherhood and the relentless balance/imbalance that is at stake.
HABITAT archival pigment print 57” x 43”
Drawing from her own experience as a mother and artist, Dominique Rey’s work explores forms of relational attachment, dependence, and tension that can emerge between the almost inseparable bodies of a mother and child. With embraces and contortions, play of figure and ground, and a constant search for balance, beings are interconnected by the myriad of complex feelings that characterize motherhood.
CLIMAT PROPICE archival pigment print 24” x 18”
A photograph hints at a crouching body in the grass, its arms extended as though waiting for someone out of frame to arrive—a mother turning to face her child. Her body, except for her arms, is covered in images of plants, also turning towards something: the light.
By way of collage and performative actions, Rey cuts out and reclaims her body’s outline in order to inhabit the space that belongs to her. By taking apart and reinterpreting her own image, she calls into question the universal figures of mother and child that are present throughout art history, and manages to create her own open-ended and contemporary narrative. In examining the negative space between bodies, which includes their mental and physical limits, the exhibition looks not only at the individuals, but more importantly at the movements and fluctuations that exist in the context of their relations.
CONFLUENCE archival pigment print 57” x 43”
The seventh petal of the tulip creature at the GALRC
January 25th-March 26th, 2023
Discover a selection of Dominique Rey’s photo and video at the exhibition Le septième pétale d’une tulipe monstre [the seventh petal of the tulip creature] at the GALRC . Curated by Élise Anne LaPlante, the exhibition invites us to reflect on ways of seeing the body that challenge its normative boundaries. The exhibition brings together practices that reclaim and reconsider hybrid and uncertain bodies, bodies that explore the possibilities of metamorphosis. Presented in this exhibition are the works of Caroline Boileau, Mimi Haddam, Ikumagialiit, Helena Martin Franco, Dominique Rey, and Winnie Truong. This project is co-produced and encompasses three exhibitions presented at La maison des artistes visuels francophones (Saint-Boniface) in the Fall of 2023, GALRC (Moncton) in the Winter of 2023; and Galerie de l’UQAM (Montréal) in the Fall of 2023.
Correspondent Screening Program: Gesture as Ellipsis at Blinkers Art and Project Space
February 11th - February 26th, 2023
Dominique Rey’s video Funambule is part of the "Correspondent Screening Program: Gesture as Ellipsis" curated by Luther Konadu at Blinkers Art and Project Space.
The screening brings together seven artists with filmic and video works that consider performance for/with the camera, expanded forms of choreography, as well as experimental approaches to narration and criticality through the moving image. Where spoken or written language trails off into unintelligible dots; movement, action, and gesture take over and allow for a different possibility for legibility. Here, the dead air of an ellipsis becomes a fruitful fissure for the artists united for the screening. Participating artists include Selin Davasse, Zhiyuan Yang, Dominique Rey, Julien Prévieux, Ekene Emeka Maduka, Camille Rojas, Emmanuelle Lainé & Benjamin Valenza.
ABOUT THE ARTIST :
Dominique Rey is a multidisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg, Canada whose practice includes photography, video, performance, collage, and sculpture. Her work delves into peripheral subjectivities, from individuals and groups of people on the margins of dominant culture, to performance-based works that mine the terrain of the unconscious. She is interested in examining the outsider within society, as well as a deep sense of being we have of being strangers to ourselves. For this reason, she utilizes modes of fragmentation to explore the construction of self, as it relates to current experiences of dislocation and disorientation.
Dominique Rey’s work has been exhibited across Canada, the United States, and Europe, including MOCCA (Toronto), Remai Modern (Saskatoon), MacLaren Art Centre (Barrie), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge), Centre Clark (Montreal), Tabacka Art Center (Kosice, Slovakia), Galleri Box (Goteborg, Sweden), and Art Center/South Florida (Miami Beach). Rey is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and La Fondation Ricard.
MORE INFORMATION : Dominique Rey’s website