CV119 - Catherine Bodmer, Synonymes — Emmanuelle Choquette
Ciel variable 119 - Against Nature (Winter 2022)
Exhibitions (Single Article, Digital Version)
Catherine Bodmer, Synonymes
By Emmanuelle Choquette
The result of a long process punctuated with residencies in Mexico City, the project called Synonymes revealed the importance that Catherine Bodmer affords to time, encounters, collecting, and transformations, as tiny as they might be. Combining photography and text as variations on a single subject (a plant market), the exhibition evinced Bodner’s interest in a space and those who inhabit it. Emmanuelle Choquette notes, “Bodmer uses the strategy of accumulating layers to highlight tension between legible and illegible, between similar and dissonant.” An idealized view of a plant stand may be a symbol for “strength and resistance.” Bodmer’s documentary approach and digital manipulations convey these multiple relationships with a place.
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Language : English & French
Digital Version : PDF, 1.3 Mb
Bibliographical Notice
Emmanuelle Choquette, “Catherine Bodmer, Synonymes” in Ciel variable, No. 119, Montreal, 2022, p. 85-86.