For over forty-five years, Joëlle Morosoli has been creating sculptures in movement, in order to reveal their impulsive language. It seems to her that the sensations provoked by movement are part of the survival instinct. Living things detect movement first; anything that moves could be prey or predator. His installations allow the viewer to conjure up this ancestral survival behavior: detection, immobility, accelerated heartbeat and slowed breathing.
Sensory perception plays a central role in his monumental installations, which, through skilful mechanical animations, call for an immersive experience. His sculptural work exploits movement as material, installation as space and, alternately, confinement or liberation as emotion. Slow movements casting shifting shadows on walls and floors give shape to movement. In this way, kinetic works stand out from static ones in their ability to bring the impulse of the emotional act to life.
Morosoli continues this research in the development of public artworks.
Joëlle Morosoli
Joëlle Morosoli holds a doctorate from the University of Paris 8 in Aesthetics, Science and Technology of the Arts. She has produced over thirty solo exhibitions, and her major group shows include one at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. In public art, she has produced over thirty works, including one at the Palais des Congrès in Hull and one at the Centre Mère-Enfant in Quebec City. Co-founder of Espace magazine, she was assistant editor for ten years. A writer and poet, she won the second Prix Robert-Cliche in 1986 for her novel Le Sablier de l'angoisse. She published a fiction book, Le Ressac des ombres, with Éditions l'Hexagone, in 1988, and a poetry collection, Traînée rouge dans un soleil de lait, with Éditions Naaman, in 1984. She is the author of a major essay, L'Installation en mouvement - Une esthétique de la violence, published by Éditions d'art Le Sabord, Trois- Rivières, in 2007. Joëlle Morosoli taught art at Cégep de Saint-Laurent from 1998 to 2023, and was coordinator of the visual arts and art history department and program from 2007 to 2014. She is currently pursuing her research in visual arts.
