Nelly-Ève Rajotte
Biography:Nelly-Ève Rajotte has been a member and administrator of Perte de Signal since 2003. She has a bachelor’s degree in art history from UQAM, and obtained a second bachelor’s at UQAM’s school of visual and media arts in 2000. She is currently completing a master’s degree in visual and media arts. Her work is oriented towards single-band digital video, and video installations. She explores a sensory research aimed at reporting on an environment at once visual and aural. Her work has been displayed in Quebec (MUTEK, Society for Arts and Technology, Darling Foundry, International Festival of Films on Art, Clark Gallery ), as well as festivals around the world like EXIS, Korea, Soundplay in Toronto and Copenhague and International short film of Berlin. She currently taking a part in the transmediale.08 video selection,curated by Thomas Munz.
Approach
Nelly-Ève Rajotte’s images in motion bear witness to a research centered on the concept of duality. Images are generally split or superimposed before melting again into another frame. The artist transforms the images she seizes, reducing them to their formal components, altering them through the modulation of captured lighting, compressing them at times into horizontal bands. A play on form progressively stretches across the surface of the screen, allowing us to follow the modification of the images colligated from reality by the artist. The original motif is at times indistinguishable by the eye, but retained by the memory, which brings us to the underlying process of metamorphosis. The image’s architecture is thus somewhat visible and the juxtaposed soundtrack follows a similar motion. Sound patches crackle or adopt a sinister tone, tracing a destabilizing perceptive journey and creating an accumulation of impressions. The artist utilizes different translations and succeeds in transporting images from one space to another – a perspective, a self-portrait, a train hall, a city…
Dossier Artiste Nelly automne 08 (FR)
Work presented:
VIHR
Architectural elements, rain, passers-by on an esplanade-all overlap and intersect against a musical excerpt from Brian Eno’s “Music for Airport.”
