[Winter 2024]
The Image Set in Motion Between Non-Place and Monument
By Christian Roy
[Excerpt]
Selected to contribute to the design of the Viau station, one of the five that will extend the Montreal metro’s blue line, Jocelyne Alloucherie developed a proposal around images of clouds. She recently offered an overview of it, for which she used video – a medium that she is increasingly turning to. Geometry (2010–17) was as part of an exhibition, A Few Skies, at Galeries Bellemare Lambert;1 HOBO (2019–23) was screened at her studio in the Rosemont district.
Despite the disparity in scale and medium between the most monumental public-art project of her career and the two more intimate audiovisual works produced with La Bande Vidéo, these seemingly heterogeneous bodies of work are connected in ways that I explore here. They may facilitate access to the experience of the world that is behind all of Alloucherie’s work, as the source of her imagery: “Shadows, clouds, backlighting, all those ephemeral moments when the tricks of the light draw infinite forms and nuances against a background of reality I have been chasing these fragile moments for decades.”2…
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[ Complete article, in digital version, available here: Jocelyne Alloucherie, The Image Set in Motion Between Non-Place and Monument – Christian Roy ]