Attirer la lumière (2015)
L’installation de Karilee Fuglem Attirer la lumière fait état de ses recherches sur l’histoire de Deschambault et de certains détails dignes d’attention qui échappent aux récits officiels. Utilisant des matériaux transparents ou réfléchissants, Fuglem réinvente l’histoire du site, créant un monde parallèle à l’aide d’éléments ténus, difficilement perceptibles. L’utilisation du grenier, espace traditionnellement dédié au rangement, est judicieuse : l’artiste cherche ainsi à rendre perceptible l’invisible et à tisser une connexion tangible avec un passé oublié, des questions restées sans réponses.
Karilee Fuglem a présentées ses installations, dessins et photographies lors d’expositions individuelles et collectives à travers le Canada. Ses œuvres font partie des collections du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec et de la Galerie nationale du Canada. L’artiste est représentée par Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain depuis 2003. Originaire de la Colombie-Britannique, Karilee Fuglem vit à Montréal depuis 1989
Attirer la lumière, an installation developed on-site at the Vieux Presbytère, stems from Fuglem’s research into historic Deschambault and certain details she was drawn to and whose reality is otherwise hidden. Using unspun flax threads and transparent or reflective materials to channel natural light, Fuglem re-imagines the official history of the Biennale site, creating a parallel world of subtle, barely perceptible elements. The use of the attic – a space traditionally used for storing things away out of view – is apt, as the artist seeks to elicit a sense of the unseen and a tangible connection to a forgotten past and its unanswerable questions.
Karilee Fuglem’s work takes the form of installations, drawings, photographs and artist books, through which she explores visual subtlety as a key to embodied perception. Originally from British Columbia, she has lived in Montreal since 1989, during which time she has presented solo exhibitions across Canada, notably at the Darling Foundry (Montreal) and the Koffler Gallery (Toronto), and in numerous group exhibitions, including the Biennale de Montréal in 1998 and 2011. Fuglem has also exhibited at the Musée national des beaux arts du Québec and the National Gallery of Canada, who hold her work in their collections. She is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, where she has exhibited regularly since 2003.