Annie Thibault
20 Jan - 17 Mar 2007
ANNIE THIBAULT
"Apprivoisements fugaces (Fleeting Mastery)"
Vernissage : Saturday January 20, from 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Annie Thibault's work is inspired by an aesthetic of life in which art, science, and nature overlap. Her multidisciplinary artistic practice includes drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Making use of tools and technical resources from various biochemical and microbiological research centres, Thibault uses organic matter as artistic material, distilling it into a universe imbued with mystery. She brings to light laboratory objects and alchemy, oscillating in her practice between reason and intuition.
Since 1995, Thibault has been creating living shapes in bottles or petri dishes; installations that contain life; and drawings composed of fungus and bacteria. Captivated by invisible life in air and water, she works in the invisible. "I started out by working with seaweed, and later explored the many textures and colours of mould," Thibault states. "Then I started to draw with bacteria on agar. It involves both planning and improvisation, as all I see at the moment of creation is the tool tracing an invisible image."
Annie Thibault lives and works in Gatineau, Quebec. She completed studies in pure science and obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Université du Québec à Hull. A recipient of the Claudia De Hueck Fellowship in Art and Science in 1998, she was also recently awarded the gold medal for sculpture at the Jeux de la Francophonie. The artist's work is also in the collection of the Musée du Québec and the City of Ottawa.
"Apprivoisements fugaces (Fleeting Mastery)"
Vernissage : Saturday January 20, from 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Annie Thibault's work is inspired by an aesthetic of life in which art, science, and nature overlap. Her multidisciplinary artistic practice includes drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Making use of tools and technical resources from various biochemical and microbiological research centres, Thibault uses organic matter as artistic material, distilling it into a universe imbued with mystery. She brings to light laboratory objects and alchemy, oscillating in her practice between reason and intuition.
Since 1995, Thibault has been creating living shapes in bottles or petri dishes; installations that contain life; and drawings composed of fungus and bacteria. Captivated by invisible life in air and water, she works in the invisible. "I started out by working with seaweed, and later explored the many textures and colours of mould," Thibault states. "Then I started to draw with bacteria on agar. It involves both planning and improvisation, as all I see at the moment of creation is the tool tracing an invisible image."
Annie Thibault lives and works in Gatineau, Quebec. She completed studies in pure science and obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Université du Québec à Hull. A recipient of the Claudia De Hueck Fellowship in Art and Science in 1998, she was also recently awarded the gold medal for sculpture at the Jeux de la Francophonie. The artist's work is also in the collection of the Musée du Québec and the City of Ottawa.