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48º50’50.18″N 2º20’26.08″E artist: Robert Prenovault
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| Pedestrian thoughts: waiting in the street/looking/squatting/filming/taking time is an ongoing creative practice – an ever-growing series of short videos that reflect the relationship between the impersonal and the intimate. These images of the street are impersonal because they belong to everyone. They are generic because there are few if any hints of where this might be. Yet, because of proximity, which breeds intimacy, these videos are suddenly, jarringly personal. Whereas one has a sense of being stepped on, in reality it is the automatic focus function that jars the image. The comfort zone has been breached. A public space seen from afar is suddenly made very private by a foot placed an inch from the lens. And here, it appears that squatting is not a socially acceptable position for an adult. It places one in a position of vulnerability like children who relate to the city and public space differently than adults. To all practical intents and purposes one becomes invisible, or is at the very least ignored, giving the opportunity of looking without being seen, which mutates impersonal space into private. | |
Produced by: Robert Prenovault Robert Prenovault is a sculptor and ceramicist who has exhibited his work in local galleries, as well as in the East and in the Prairie provinces where he was raised. His work has been purchased by public institutions and private collectors. Prenovault also received a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University and has taught sculpture and ceramics at the CEGEP level. More recently, he has been integrating into his toolbox technologies such as 3D scanners and printers as well as programs that allow the manipulation of the resulting digitized matter as he aims to address the issues inevitably raised by the collision of the bit and the byte. |