Since 2012, the artist has taken us on a journey from New York to Suriname, from performance to the studio, and humorously examines our increasingly unequal relationships with the living. The authors brilliantly introduce us to the journey and experiences of a social art artist. This monograph will accompany the exhibition Silent Fall at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, in 2023.
Excerpt from the text by Chantal Pontbriand :
Thus, in this upcoming series of dresses, triggered by a face-to-face encounter with the hyper-city of New York, Paul goes from metamorphosis to metamorphosis, exploring with her body, through the environments she passes through, the issues of contemporaneity. One "skin" disintegrates to make room for another, another self, and another world, as seen through a dimension of the universe of which each dress is the signal, the pointer or the marker. The process, mutation in arthropod obliges, is "regulated by the hormones", namely in this case of figure, by the affects triggered in a performative way.
Excerpt from Ayelet Danielle Aldouby's text:
Dominique Paul enhances the role of the artist in the 21st century with his ability to integrate art education into his process, raising awareness of inequities and encouraging those involved to use the artistic process, and also with his ability to "restructure visual reality" as a sustainable model for civic action. Paul personifies the expanded role of the social artist who is also a "scholar-philosopher-artisan" and acts as an agent of change.
