{"id":7701,"date":"2015-08-07T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T14:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/?p=7701"},"modified":"2015-08-07T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T14:07:23","slug":"irreversible-by-alain-paiement-installation-to-be-seen-in-paspebiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/irreversible-by-alain-paiement-installation-to-be-seen-in-paspebiac\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIrreversible\u201d by Alain Paiement &#8211; Installation to be seen in Pasp\u00e9biac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<strong> Centre culturel de Pasp\u00e9biac<\/strong> is currently featuring the large-scale installation \u201cIrreversible\u201d by Montreal artist <strong>Alain Paiement<\/strong>, made up of three video pieces \u2013 S\u00e9maphore asynchrone (Asynchronous Semaphore, 2014), D\u00e9rive (Drift Ice, 2012), Lunes asynchrones (Asynchronous Moons, 2012) \u2013 and photography, Start-End-Here (2012).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe installation is touched by a quiet anxiety regarding irreversible phenomena, and the limits of our consciousness,\u201d explains Alain Paiement. A lighthouse signals a risk of grounding; drift ice and the graceful movements of jellyfish are presented by the artist as \u201cemblematic icons of the climate change that the planet is currently undergoing. The video-photography substantially modifies our understanding of the change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor at the School of Visual and Media Arts of the Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al since 2005, Alain Paiement lives and works in Montreal. His work has been the subject of many individual and group exhibitions across Canada and the United States, as well as being presented in Europe, Latin America and Asia since the 1980s. His practice is also documented internationally in close to 100 exhibit catalogues, art monographs and articles in specialist periodicals. He has also realized several works of public art in Qu\u00e9bec, including the monumental Tessellations sans fin (2013) in the lobby of the Centre hospitalier de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al Research Centre.<\/p>\n<p>See<a href=\"http:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/portfolio\/alain-paiement-in-paspebiac\/\"> the artist\u2019s profile<\/a> for more details about his artistic approach and his biography, as well as to find out the schedule for visiting the installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre culturel de Pasp\u00e9biac is currently featuring the large-scale installation \u201cIrreversible\u201d by Montreal artist Alain Paiement, made up of three video pieces \u2013 S\u00e9maphore asynchrone (Asynchronous Semaphore, 2014), D\u00e9rive (Drift Ice, 2012), Lunes asynchrones (Asynchronous Moons, 2012) \u2013 and photography, Start-End-Here (2012). \u201cThe installation is touched by a quiet anxiety regarding irreversible phenomena, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,213],"tags":[323,279,322],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7702,"href":"https:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701\/revisions\/7702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2016.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}