Here is my place (group picture) - Blog - Joceline Chabot

 

In 2003, in a space reserved for the members of Skol, I suggested to visitors that they draw their “profile” on the wall with a crayon. Of course, I already had made a point of drawing mine, symbolically affirming my place in the complex universe of the art world. I always have had to renew this adherence and even more so to find a resonance there. Each work carries this hint of hesitation. If I continue to nourish the “beast,” it is kind of to find new ways of facing this dilemma but above all to share my concerns.

My work usually is conceived according to places. This then stimulates thoughts on boundaries: these unstable constructions, both ideological and physical, that create places of inclusion and paradoxically of exclusion, of interdiction and therefore of transgression.

Bordering spaces (walls and windows), interstices and parks have served as places in which to intervene with writing, drawing, objects and light, alternately or simultaneously playing dominant roles.Concerned with making the form, content, process and materials all correspond, I conceive of my interventions based on news items in which critical or subjective elements are inserted during production.

Thus I have explored themes of exclusion, of wandering and of personal space in Rien à declarer, Dispersion, Exil et Dialogues Rompus (Nothing to declare, Dispersion, Exile and Ruptured Dialogues), using photographs of refugees in the newspapers as source material. The world situation, undermined by problems of supplies and the distribution of water and gas, stimulated the creation of Perfusion et Failure Delivery. In Effacement (Elimination), I tried to minimize the boundaries between my various identities. Because these interventions are linked to places, most of them are of an ephemeral nature. This declared end corroborates the unstable and situational nature of discourses, justifying our erring ways both as individuals and as a collective.

At the same time as I carried out these projects, I produced several hand-made books. Whether they are one of a kind or of a limited edition, reproduced manually or mechanically, they are evidence of my concerns and a space for formal exploration.