Collection: Emmanuelle Gendron

Artistic approach // In Emmanuelle Gendron's art, creativity asserts itself as the vector of her discourse, guiding her practice towards an exploration of plastic language. This exploration is illustrated by two prioritized means of expression: painting and photography.

Throughout the process, the artist creates a fusion between these techniques, inciting him to treat the pictorial surface in two singular forms and two distinct themes; the result is a contemplation of the specific characteristics of the motif observed.

In a first approach, she uses photography to capture the atmosphere of the Canadian boreal forest. On canvas, Gendron reproduces the atmospheric variations captured and perceived in her shots. The use of monochrome allows her to enhance the peaceful, grandiose aspect of natural settings, where the black spruce takes pride of place. Influenced by the work of nineteenth-century Romantic painters, she paints these subjects with a sense of the sublime, to achieve a strong emotional expression that matches the sensations she feels in front of Nature.

His second approach involves an acrylic intervention on a transfer technique of photographic images of portraits, rural or urban landscapes. Under a varied, colorful palette, geometric or organic shapes delineate certain parts of the image, with the aim of adding dynamism to the work and infusing it with a new, unique energy. Here, the type of composition combines the principle of the instantaneous, through the taking of photos, with a reflection on the perception of humans and their environment.