Yan Duyvendak Le vrai du faux
OBORO
Opening on Saturday, November 20, at 4 pm
Yan Duyvendak presents a site-specific installation entitled Le vrai du faux. The installation is composed of three pedestals upholding enigmatic reflections (including the spectator's) as well as four colour photographs taken a few months earlier in the gallery. These photographs represent the very same gallery space in which they are placed. The points of view have been precisely arranged, requiring a specific placement of mirrors on walls, leading to a peculiar rapport between the present of the spectator and the completed time of the photographs. Hence the images ignore the spectator's presence within that he/she traverses.
"The recent works of Yan Duyvendak reflect a particular search, that of the desire to place us in a situation where the space seen and the space photographed become entwined; a proposition where time is fixed in the past and paradoxically excludes us from the present. Departing from the documentary image prevailing in the 70's with the Nouvelle Figuration, Yan Duyvendak uses photography within a spatially self-referential framework. The photographs question the relationship of the body to its context. Time and space are reference points with which the artist seeks to destabilize the visitor." - Nadia El Beblawi, Das Kunst-Bulletin, July/August 93.
OBORO
Born in Holland in 1965, Yan Duyvendak lives in Geneva. He studied at l’École cantonale des Beaux-Arts de Sion as well as at l’École supérieure d’Art visuel de Genève. Duyvendak exhibits regularly in Switzerland, and has recently shown at the Rivolta gallery (Lausanne, May 93) and at the Andata-Ritorno gallery (Geneva, September 93). OBORO presents his first exhibition in Montreal.