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Karine PayettePrendre soin I2023
2023
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Through a variety of structural and wall-hanged pieces, Karine Payette’s Adaptation examines how changes in the environment can begin to have an impact on our physical existence. Elements of nature, the built environment, animals, and human presence are displayed as a way to address the symbiotic relationship we have with our surroundings, while simultaneously challenging our intuition and observation. Central to the exhibition is Payette’s incorporation of various organisms and how they adapt their appearances to acclimate to the environment. Just as leaf beetles use their brightly coloured patterns to blend into the surrounding, or the angle shades of a moth makes it hard for birds to detect them in grasslands, Payette applies a similar visual rhetoric towards the human body.
Posed in numerous grasping positions, Payette’s silicone hands become imaginative hybrids exploring an act of transformation. As a butterfly lands on our hand, or insects crawl over our skin, Payette extends the organism’s physical characteristics to the surface of the skin in order to reveal or conceal the body. The meticulously painted and detailed textures manifesting over the impacted surface allows for reflections on the way that humans can adapt to the environment for a change. Acting as ambiguous objects, Payette’s assemblages seamlessly blend into one another under notions of camouflage, disguise, and mimicry.
The cohabitation between humans and animals is also seen in the way Payette brings together elements from the domestic environment into Adaptation. The animals that are placed over the chairs, tables, or carpet scattered throughout the exhibition space appear as an accessory, or an extension to the furniture. Bringing further attention on the impact humans have on the domestication of animals, the disregarded bag of fish and the video installation of hands manipulating the form of a bird, draws attention to the fragility that can exist within this coexistence. The term ‘handle with care’ immediately comes to mind when examining the dilemma around companionship and ownership by adopting the natural world into the built environment.
As Payette plays with materiality and form, Adaptation further addresses the progression from looking to recognizing. In composing a series of photographs, sculptures and a video installation, Payette creates sensibility through design in order to grab our attention.
- Creator:Karine Payette (1983, Canadian)
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Montreal, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU47613081332
Karine Payette
Karine Payette was born in 1983 in Montreal, Quebec, where she lives and works. Working primarily with sculpture and installation, she reproduces, for the most part, environments that address the constant adaptation of the living in a world in perpetual transformation. Her recent research focuses on the idea of inscription and imprinting of the environment on the individual by examining the relationship that humans have with other species. Since 2010, she has participated in several solo and group exhibitions. Her works are present in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Prêt d’œuvres d’art du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, the City of Montreal, the City of Longueuil, the City of Laval. Since 2015, she has completed nine projects integrating art into architecture for schools, libraries and parks in Quebec.
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