This artist's book presents Jacinthe Lessard-L's far-fetched and poetic project accompanied by a very, very long sentence by artist and author Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf. This book is made up of photographs showing domestic interiors in which a ribbon connects as many elements as possible whose names begin with the same letter of the alphabet. Diagrams created from the spatial tracing of the various objects and components connected, as well as several lists of words, statistics and evocative elements accompany these images. A first version of the Pataphysics of Space, focusing mainly on photographs and diagrams, was exhibited at VU photo in 2011. In its bookish form, the Pataphysics of Space unfolds the creative process of the photographer, while deepening the notion of pataphysics - the pseudo-science invented by Alfred Jarry that focuses his attention on the exception rather than the rule, and that has led to explorations of language, such as those of the OuLiPo. Since the world is already systematized by language, the idea here is to invent a visual system by applying a conceptual modus operandi imbued with humour. The latter is extended in MAKP's text, which features the fictitious author of these images in a kind of mad scientist's notebook, as well as in the fine graphic presence of Annabelle Fiset.
The pataphysics of space
Jacinthe Lessard-L.
Jacinthe Lessard-L. holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts from Concordia University. She produces series of works that question, with the help of photography, our relationship to manufactured products and to certain contemporary manifestations of modernist utopias that populate and organize living space. These series are the result of research whose purpose is not predefined; the works produced are aesthetically reminiscent of pictorial forms that are often modern. Moreover, many of these projects question the very nature of photography, for example its historical role, its so-called transparency and its relationship to the referent; what is documented with the camera is often constructed from scratch, in another medium.
