Artist Talk: Julie Forgues - Dear Svalbard, why did I come back?
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How does the environment shape an artistic vision and inform creative practice? Come and hear from visiting artist Julie Forgues.
Join the Art Collection and researchers from the Faculty of Natural Sciences for an artist talk with Canadian artist Julie Forgues.
Julie Forgues is a Professor of Photography at the University of Moncton. This talk will address how human interactions in the environment have paralleled her artwork in different parts of the world.
This talk is open to the public, staff and students and is free to attend.
The talk will take place in the
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About Julie
Julie Forgues has an MFA in Studio Arts (photography) from Concordia University and a BAV from Université de Moncton. She is the recipient of the Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program in Scotland (2024). She has participated in the artist residency at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai (2017-2018) and twice in the Arctic Circle residency program (2016 and 2023) in several other international artist residency programs, such as in China, Iceland, Ireland, Japan and Scotland. She has shown her and at the regional, national and international level such as the Shanghai PhotoFairs (2018). She will be showing her work at the Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton, NB) this May-June. Julie has also been professor at Université de Moncton since 2000. She considers her photographic research as an intermediate between a space and a place.
From Julie Forgues' artistic statement:
"Through the photographic image, I explore how the in-between in a landscape is a place in itself, a blurry lieu between what was (space) and what will be (place). These intermediate sites where nature and culture find themselves in a state of transformation…in a latent state…is what I render in image. I see this middle point as a site that is neither nature nor culture. Being a part of my landscape conceptions, these in-betweens are therefore important for the understanding of these notions. My work makes these process and these in-between sites visible."