Photo: Atlas documentation, courtesy of the artist & Jack Barrett Gallery, New York
Élise Lafontaine’s paintings foster a fertile dialogue between the organic dimension of the body and the strangeness of the compartmentalized living spaces that she visited within the context of artist residencies: a psychiatric hospital in Malévoz, Switzerland; caves of prehistoric art in the Ariége Pyrenees, France; and the Carmelite monastery in Montréal. Within this exploratory context, Lafontaine’s pictorial work gives form to the experience of the body, made up of several organ systems.
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