Julie Favreau : an entire day an entire month

Julie Favreau: an entire day an entire month

an entire day an entire month draws its premise from Jón Kalman Stefánsson's novel Heaven and Hell (2010). Adopting from its silence some of the symbols that connect the characters that will populate this exhibition in its multiple sites. Extracting the basis of the language to create a video; a "ballet" for a woman, a man, a little glass finger and the natural environment surrounding a Modernist house in the middle of the forest.

By extracting a new meaning from this second narration, Favreau is developing an installation that will showcase several performers who will do solos for the camera. Inventing together movements that tell the story of the video being played in the next room. She reveals this investigation to the spectator via photographic prints displayed in the installation.

As the exhibition is processional, developing and changing over time, the public is invited to visit often over the six week installation. The interactions will stop for the May 8 finissage, where Favreau's catalogue will be launched, following the announcement of the 2014 recipients of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art.

Favreau's practice, located at the crossroads of visual art and choreography, is based on inventing gestures out of objects (sculptures) or, conversely, on inventing sculptures out of gestures. Her projects take on different forms, such as installation, video, sculpture, performance, and photography. Recent works induce a state of heightened sensory awareness in the viewer, inviting concentration, focus, and intimacy.

Favreau has presented/performed her work in many contexts including exhibitions, festivals and performances on stage. In 2012, Favreau received the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art and was long listed for the Sobey Art Award.

In residence for three years in one of the eight Montreal studios of the Darling Foundry, she is currently working on a new creative cycle that includes sculptural propositions, video and photographic works, and performance for stage and solo exhibitions for various sites: festival Actoral, Marseilles, France and Usine C, Battat Contemporary, and Darling Foundry, Montreal.

She is currently represented by Battat Contemporary.