{"id":38391,"date":"2017-12-21T12:24:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artmur.com\/?page_id=38391"},"modified":"2018-01-25T12:35:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:35:05","slug":"des-silhouettes-emballees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artmur.com\/en\/artists\/jean-robert-drouillard\/des-silhouettes-emballees\/","title":{"rendered":"Des silhouettes emball\u00e9es"},"content":{"rendered":"
January 13 \u2013 February 24, 2018
\nOpening reception: Saturday, January 13, 2018 from 3-5 p.m.
\nJean-Robert Drouillard: Des silhouettes emball\u00e9es<\/em><\/p>\n

Text by Terence Sharpe<\/p>\n

Jean-Robert Drouillard\u2019s practice has its genesis in a background of studies in literature and writing. He is a member of the artist collective la Coop Le Bloc5, an artist-run collective in Quebec. His work refreshingly resists current tropes of art people can view on screens – it\u2019s presence in a room is eerie, caught from peripheral vision, it doesn\u2019t hold the same presence as a human figure, despite being the same size, it\u2019s more funereal, it\u2019s heavy analog weight striking at our digitally enabled low-level panic. While describing this effect though, while creating more tactile strain that a four inch screen\u2019s rendering, cannot bear the full onus of the work on the corpus of the flesh.<\/p>\n

Despite his works bearing the torsos of humans, their heads often, though not always, carry animal characteristics, but these works don\u2019t constrain themselves to the chiseled muscularity of antiquity. The putty is palpable, it\u2019s not illusory, it\u2019s medium-specificity is raw and deliberate. Not disregard the work by using the term, but it is messy, as is the anthro-cultural epistemes that it reminds us of. The anthropological can be applied here, as these works are far from human, or to be precise, far the self-image of human. We\u2019re drawn to current discourses on the anthropocene, as we encounter animals beginning to take on human qualities, and notably this is not the opposite.<\/p>\n

Drouillard\u2019s works omit the humaness of each figures head, we must consider them in a manner dehumanised. In taking on the zoological, their relational positioning to one another give them a docility that strives for a time gone by. In this sense they are truly hauntological, they show a misty-eyed throw back to a moment one cannot envisaged the trajectory shifted and we moved to an ecological epoch of no return.<\/p><\/div>\n

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