Crédit photo va à Mathieu Léger
(French Version follows)
The Scent of Full Moon – Studies for Pure Movement
Night-blooming jasmine, or Cestrum nocturnum, is a fast-growing shrub from the Solanaceae family. At nightfall, it’s greenish-white or yellow flowers emit an intoxicating jasmine-like fragrance that is most attractive to pollinators. In 1967, the Jornal do Brasil asked Lispector, a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer, to write a weekly column about any topic of her choosing. On April 3, 1971, her column entry titled De natura florum was written in the form of a dictionary outlining her own definitions of various plants and their anatomies. The 20th definition of a total of 24 was that of night-blooming jasmine:
Has the scent of the full moon. It is phantasmagorical and a little frightening—it only comes out at night, with its intoxicating smell, mysterious, silent. It belongs also to deserted street corners and darkness, to the gardens of darkened homes with shuttered windows. It is dangerous.
The name of this exhibition—which speaks of life and what nourishes us, as well as of decay, namely what is left behind—is drawn from the writings of Clarice Lispector. The works within this exhibition are disruptors of more traditional and linear definitions of time and space. Belliveau’s compositions are whimsical yet eerie. They are as intoxicating, phantasmagorical, and invasive in their activation through the use of stop-motion animation as Night-blooming jasmine is for the pollinator and the gardener.
Belliveau’s still lives are anything but still. They are as transgressive as the 17th century paintings that have also inspired them. Clara Peeters was a Flemish still-life painter who worked professionally despite the many restrictions imposed upon women at the time. By reviving shapes and compositions found within this painter’s work in her own sculptural practice, Belliveau further distorts time and space as she seemingly creates passageways between epochs. These hallways allow for a more expansive interpretation of what is matter, of what is time, and what is archive. In a sort of creative osmosis, Belliveau reaches through Peeters’ canvases and Lispector’s pages to bring forth, to this side of the temporal membrane, the visual elements, words, and stories that must be revisited and have an interest in coexisting in the present day.
Alisa Arsenault, Curator
Le parfum de la pleine lune - Études à l'égard du mouvement absolu
Le jasmin à floraison nocturne ou Cestrum nocturnum est un arbuste à croissance rapide de la famille des solanacées. À la tombée de la nuit, ses fleurs d’un blanc verdâtre ou jaunes dégagent un parfum enivrant semblable à celui du jasmin et extrêmement attirant pour les pollinisateurs. En 1967, le Jornal do Brasil a demandé à Clarice Lispector, une romancière et nouvelliste brésilienne d'origine ukrainienne, d’écrire une chronique hebdomadaire sur le sujet de son choix. Celle du 3 avril 1971 s’intitule De natura florum et est rédigée sous la forme d'un dictionnaire présentant les définitions, propres à l’écrivaine, de diverses plantes et de leur anatomie. La 20e définition sur un total de 24 porte sur le jasmin à fleurs nocturnes :
A le parfum de la pleine lune. Elle est fantasmagorique et un peu effrayante, elle ne sort que la nuit, avec son odeur enivrante, mystérieuse, silencieuse. Elle appartient aussi aux coins de rue déserts et à l'obscurité, aux jardins des maisons aux lumières éteintes et aux volets fermés. Elle est dangereuse.
Le nom de cette exposition qui évoque la vie et ce qui nous nourrit, ainsi que sa dégradation, à savoir ce qui est laissé pour compte, est tiré des écrits de Clarice Lispector. Les œuvres présentées dans cette exposition bouleversent les définitions traditionnelles et linéaires du temps et de l'espace. Les compositions de Belliveau sont à la fois fantaisistes et inquiétantes. Elles sont aussi enivrantes, fantasmagoriques et envahissantes dans leur activation via l'animation pas-à-pas (stop-motion) que le jasmin à fleurs nocturnes l'est pour le pollinisateur et la personne qui jardine.
Les natures mortes de Belliveau sont tout sauf immobiles. Elles sont aussi transgressives que les peintures d’une artiste du 17e siècle qui les ont pour autant inspirées. Peintre flamande de natures mortes dans les années 1600, Clara Peeters travaillait professionnellement malgré les nombreuses restrictions imposées aux femmes de l’époque. En reprenant dans sa pratique sculpturale des formes et des compositions provenant des œuvres de Peeters, Belliveau distord davantage le temps et l'espace en créant des passerelles entre les époques. Ces couloirs permettent une interprétation plus large de la matière, du temps et de l'archive. Dans une sorte d'osmose créative, l'artiste traverse les toiles de Peeters et les pages de Lispector pour en faire jaillir, de ce côté-ci de la membrane temporelle, les visuels, les mots et donc les histoires qui doivent être revisitées et qui ont un intérêt à coexister aujourd’hui.
- Alisa Arsenault, commissaire
3D printed apricot ( hand coloured) , bronze direct cast cardboard, green velvet ribbon.
crédit photo va à Mathieu Léger
Pewter cast ( teddy bear) Sunflower with pewter cast rose stem
3D printed fig, styrofoam, marble, bronze cast almonds, cast sunflowers in pewter, rose stem cast in pewter, Bronze carved fig, coral, bronze cherry, seashell with bronze, bronzed cardboard with green velvet ribbon, 3D printed apricots - hand coloured.
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
Prairie l - I want distances
Mobile
Wheat, plexiglass, sanded take out containers from lockdown, blue velvet ribbon, chopsticks, string, round mirror, juice box
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
Bungalow - Thistle
Lenticular print, plexi glass
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
3D printed fig, styrofoam, marble, bronze cast almonds, cast sunflowers in pewter, rose stem cast in pewter, Bronze carved fig, coral, bronze cherry, seashell with bronze, bronzed cardboard with green velvet ribbon, 3D printed apricots - hand coloured.
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
Prairie ll - fruit without sadness
Mobile
Sticks, wheat, pink and brown paper 3D printed apricot, copper, seashell, sanded take out containers
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
Prairie ll - fruit without sadness - Mobile
Sticks, wheat, pink and brown paper 3D printed apricot, copper, seashell, sanded take out containers
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
Prairie lll - milk
Mobile
Blue velvet ribbon, copper, stick, 3D printed apricot, vintage jewelry box, sanded baby formula container lids, dried lotus pod, snake patterned ribbon
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
Prairie lll - milk
detail - Mobile
Blue velvet ribbon, copper, stick, 3D printed apricot, vintage jewelry box, sanded baby formula container lids, dried lotus pod, snake patterned ribbon
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
detail: Prairie lll - milk
Mobile
Blue velvet ribbon, copper, stick, 3D printed apricot, vintage jewelry box, sanded baby formula container lids, dried lotus pod, snake patterned ribbon
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
projection on left: Downrushing flowerdeep
projection on right: Still life with fallen fruit
Downrushing flower deep
Silent, Video time lapse- animation HD 3:50 min loop 2020
Image: potatoes, tulip, 3D printed banana vase, take out container lid, crystal pink glass, gold plastic ribbon, peony, blue sake bottle, convex mirror, stick, rubber band, foxtail, fabric, plaster cast of hands, orange slice, 3D printed lemon, water.
Still life with fallen fruit
Silent, Video, time lapse- animation HD 4:50 min loop 2019
Image: Venus fly trap, crystals, fishing net, sea shells, water bottle, hollyhocks from Itoshima, string, japanese fan, sake bottle, figs, apricots, moisture beads, thistle, cup, acorns, ramune bottle, plasticine, yellow balloon, fabric,tupperware, water.
Tables:
Lenticular print double sided “Still life Itoshima - after Fernand Khnopff”, Jesmonite cast juice boxes, 3D printed apricots, banana, and lemon- hand coloured. Seashell, bronze hand carved fig, small glass bottle, cast potatoes, Stick, convex mirror, rubber band, plasticine.
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
video animation : Downrushing flower deep
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
3D printed banana - hand coloured, convex mirror, rubber band, stick, plasticine, jesmonite cast lid, shell.
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
3D printed apricots and bananas - hand coloured, jesmonite cast juice boxes.
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
cast plaster potatoes hand painted
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
Pewter cast children’s crayons, and paper, interactive piece, invitation to mark make with the pewter crayons.
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
Pewter cast children’s crayons, interactive piece, paper replaced throughout exhibition
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
Banana – aura trembles glittering
Mirror shelf 1.5x1.5x2.5” shelf with micro banana – 3d modelled printed bronze mini bananas
*Technical assistance 3D design -Tim Belliveau
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
Video : gift
with lenticular print - 4 sided cube - led light inside on custom built table.
Gift
Silent, Video, time lapse- animation HD 5 min loop 2022
Image: Slurpee cup, carnation, roses, tansy, pink cup from dentist office, coral, wheat, thistle, cheesecake cafe box, Orange Stake Flag, Chrysanthemums in yogurt container, with concave mirror, cheesecake café box, Mokuba silk ribbon, printed cloth from Iwaki.
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
open out the grace of your eyes
Lenticular print 70x18”
Image: detail of Okotok glacial erratic, and two potatoes
you burn me
Lenticular print 28.5 x 16”
Image: Okotok glacial erratic
do not move stones
Lenticular print 28.5 x 16”
Image: Okotok glacial erratic
they let their wings down
Lenticular print 28.5 x 16”Image: Okotok glacial erratic
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
they let their wings down
Lenticular print 28.5 x 16”Image: Okotok glacial erratic
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
open out the grace of your eyes
Lenticular print 70x18”
Image: detail of Okotok glacial erratic, and two potatoes
you burn me
Lenticular print 28.5 x 16”
Image: Okotok glacial erratic
do not move stones
Lenticular print 28.5 x 16”
Image: Okotok glacial erratic
they let their wings down
Lenticular print 28.5 x 16”
Image: Okotok glacial erratic
crédit photo: Mathieu Léger
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TmjBTffwvCkvBDOUkxic332dDCukjHke/view
Curated by Maria Wills Londono in collaboration with Audrey Genois and Maude Johnson, VOX Centre de l’Image Contemporaine, MTL QC
Animation:
https://vimeo.com/351351222
more info:
https://www.momentabiennale.com/en/artist/elisabeth-belliveau/
Gift - Lenticular Prints and Video Loop
https://vimeo.com/440055645
Curated by Noor Bhangu, for the exhibition, even the birds are walking- Latitude 53 ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan)
Treaty 6 Territory
Info and Gallery Documentation:
https://www.latitude53.org/current/2019/4/10/noor-bhangu-even-the-birds-are-walking
Silent, Video, time lapse- animation HD 5 min loop 2022
Image: Slurpee cup, carnation, roses, tansy, pink cup from dentist office, coral, wheat, thistle, cheesecake cafe box, Orange Stake Flag, Chrysanthemums in yogurt container, with concave mirror, cheesecake café box, Mokuba silk ribbon, printed cloth from Iwaki.
Gift
Lenticular prints assembled as cube on custom built table 2022
Silent, Video, time lapse- animation HD 5 min loop 2022
Image: Slurpee cup, carnation, roses, tansy, pink cup from dentist office, coral, wheat, thistle, cheesecake cafe box, Orange Stake Flag, Chrysanthemums in yogurt container, with concave mirror, cheesecake café box, Mokuba silk ribbon, printed cloth from Iwaki.
Gift
Lenticular prints assembled as cube on custom built table 2022
Video preview: https://vimeo.com/280306649
Still from https://vimeo.com/280306649
Animating/time lapse still.
Biwa fruit, loquat, ume, apricot, water beads, seashells.
https://vimeo.com/280306649
3D printing and hand coloring local apricots, ume, biwa, loquat
Animating/time lapse set up.
Children’s chemistry set, water bottle, balloon, figs, seashells.
https://vimeo.com/280306649
Animating/time lapse set up.
Children’s chemistry set, water bottle, balloon, figs, seashells.
Exhibition at Galerie La Centrale Powerhouse Montreal 2018
http://www.lacentrale.org/programmation/ballroom
Youtube talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QExCFZ2w_UQ
Pewter cast rose stems, plastic cast pineapple , sarunashi juice can. plaster, winter stone, Ramuné bottle.
Photo credit: Paul Litherland
Pewter case rose stem, 3D scanned and printed mug with coral, bronze, seashell, plastic cast strawberry, ribbon, cast juice box in winter stone.
Photo credit: Paul Litherland
Photo credit: Paul Litherland
Digital Erratics
Exhibition at FOFA gallery Montreal QC.
INFO:
https://www.concordia.ca/cuevents/finearts/fofa/2017/10/30/exhibition-elisabeth-tim-belliveau.html
with Timothy Belliveau http://www.timothy-belliveau.com/new-index/
Photos: Guy LHeureux
Oct-Dec 2017
Materials: Bronze cast, 3D print gold plated steel, 3D printed plastic, plaster cast, styrofoam, wood, plasticine, coral, paper and tape.
Projections: Stop-motion animation
Stills from new stop-motion animation
Preview
Stills from trilogy of stop-motion animations Limonade/Lily/Troisieme
they can be viewed on my vimeo page:
Ballroom is a 7 minute 2 channel video I just made at Banff Centre for the Arts - here is a sneak peak ++++
https://capturephotofest.com/public-installations/a-vase-with-pale-roses-animations-on-still-life/
