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ArchiveBorn in 1975 in Rimouski, Canada.
A close, critical observation of what forms a vivid picture in our everyday world is the starting point for Gwenaël Bélanger’s projects. His approach is characterized above all by a “bricoleur” attitude which consists of using graphic and photographic processes. Like an anthropologist of images, he is interested as much in the media image as in the cultural object, both of which carry and convey connotations, denotations and references. These are the materials he works with, in order to create shifts in perception and in which he sets up what he calls “machinations of the gaze”. Early beginnings of a creative space, a kind of building site, where constructions, manipulations and transformations take place, as he misleadingly plays with the codes of media language. Bélanger attempts to question the status of the image—how it is produced, transmitted and received—and puts to the test what we see and perceive.
 Gwenaël BELANGER, Le Faux Mouvement (1 à 120°), 2008, Giclée print, 274 x 100 cm |
