Nathalie Bujold

PIXEL ET PETITS POINTS
04.29–06.05.2004
Room 2

A polyvalent and productive artist, Nathalie Bujold offers, with Pixels et petits points, an exhibition made from winks of the eye and the back and forth of influences. As the title suggests, the show brings together works that bear witness to the artist’s inclination for both hand-made objects strongly inspired by crafts, and media art. It is not only the able exploration of diverse materials and techniques that marks Bujold’s production, but an entire range of references and appeals to the history of media and representation via the genres of portraiture, still life and landscape.

Working from series in which she asked a few of those close to her to pose and to which she associated a slow unraveling of landscapes and still lives, the artist transmits an expression of just simply, quietly being in the world through her videos. Accompanied by original soundtracks by the composer Gerard Leckey, these pieces play with varying the combination of visual and sonic components and on the tension between still and moving images. They function as visual metaphors for the movement inherent in natural objects and beings.

In parallel with the videos, Bujold amused herself with making “derived products” alluding to different procedures for building an image. And so, a collection of small embroideries, magnificently executed — stitch by stitch — on the basis of the videotapes, themselves assembled pixel by pixel, constitute an eloquent example of such “products”.

NdeB translated by PduB