Janie Julien-Fort

Les paysages éphémères | Chantiers sous surveillance
09.28.2023
Library

Since 2015, artist Janie Julien-Fort has been making and installing hundreds of small pinhole cameras around construction sites, acting as makeshift surveillance cameras that scrutinize the progress of work over time. She uses the solargraphy technique: with no mechanism or lens, sunlight passes through a tiny needlehole to leave an imprint on photosensitive paper. Each image requires exposure times of several months. At the end of this long cohabitation with the landscape, the images reveal the randomness of movement, blurred zones and accidents of light. The flickering images evoke the fragility of photography and the passage of time, like the subtle traces left by the path of the sun.

This two-book set offers a poetic and theoretical journey through the artist’s approach, the Quebec landscape and the materiality of the photographic image. It includes the artist’s book Ephemeral landscapes, the fruit of an artistic and literary collaboration between Janie Julien-Fort and author Claire Moeder, and the book Construction site under surveillance, presenting the artist’s process of micro-interventions in public space, with texts by Christian Roy and Francis O’Shaugnessy.

Janie Julien-Fort is a visual artist originally from Rouyn-Noranda. She lives with her family in Montreal, where she teaches analog and alternative photography. She uses photography, video and archives to create evolving projects that refer to the passage of time, impermanence and memory. In her process, she favors the latency of photographs rather than instantaneity, materiality rather than transparency.

Claire Moeder is an author. She regularly collaborates with several artists as an artist, curator or art critic. Her shift from art criticism to literature now approaches the territory from an ecofeminist perspective, enabling her to integrate her personal voice more strongly.

Francis O’Shaughnessy is an artist-researcher and visual arts teacher at Cégep Marie-Victorin. His critical texts have been published in the magazines Inter, art actuel, Zone Occupée, Vie des arts (Québec), Ligeia, Doc(k)s (France) and Performatus (Brazil). He holds a PhD in art studies and practice from UQAM. He lives and works in Montreal.

Christian Roy (Ph.D.) is a cultural historian, multilingual translator, art and film critic and author of Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia. A regular contributor to Vice Versa and Vie des Arts magazines, he has also published in Esse, Ciel variable, Possibles and ETC.

Price : 75,00$

Type : Monograph

Artist : Janie Julien-Fort

Author(s) : Claire Moeder, Francis O’Shaughnessy et Christian Roy

Technical characteristics : 26 cm x 22 cm x 5 cm (box) – 138 pages, color photo, hardcover, English and French – 54 pages, color photo, hardcover, English and French

ISBN : 9782923612744