This book presents the work of Catherine Bodmer, developed following two research residencies in Mexico City in 2010 and 2011. Considering this megalopolis as a living matter that is constantly transforming, the artist questions the empty zones of a city that abounds in people and things. Inspired by the image of limbo, that intermediate space between heaven and hell, she has focused on places of passage typical of modern infrastructures. The images show neglected sites, halfway between wasteland and recreation ground. They are emptied of the social game which, following municipal attempts, should have made them more attractive. The three series of images use strategies of duplication and multiplication, symmetry and asymmetry. "I start from the idea that a place (and one's experience of it) is above all an arrangement of variables where nothing really remains fixed; I am interested in its potential, its possibilities of representation.
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Catherine Bodmer
Originally from Zurich, Catherine Bodmer has lived and worked in Montreal since 1996. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Lucerne and holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal (1999). Her interest in the singularity of everyday places and materials, as well as the idea of repetition and transformation, are central to her work. His artistic practice includes installations, site-specific works and photographs, which have been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, as well as in Mexico and Taiwan. A recipient of several grants from both the federal and provincial arts councils, she was awarded the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2008.
