© Josée Pedneault
The work of Josée Pedneault navigates between poetry and the concrete immediacy of things, people, and nature. The images oscillate between direct descriptive representation and subjective formal experiments. She uses photography in a way that allows different approaches to coexist, to work additively, and to escape the world of opposition and categorization. Rather, her work presents levels of difference; differences that allows new meanings to emerge and a surprising cosmology to engage with, to confront, and in which one can invest his own experience of the world.
Pedneault’s website presents many of her portfolios and installations from which it is difficult to select a particular work to present here. Again, her different projects seem to act like responses to previous works, but at the same time offer glimpses of their becoming and transformation. That being said, I particularly enjoy her Correspondances, where she engages in a photographic/text conversation on the internet with a writer and/or another photographer. Through this exchange between the other participant and herself, not only does two geographically separated persons come into a close creative relationship, but a new system of coexistence brings the viewer in a space that is neither in the world of images or of texts, but in the interrelation of those two modes of apprehension.
Although the work is constructed within a certain time lapse that the viewer can follow as he or she browses through the site, the narratives that are presented seem to be driven by an ever-present sense of becoming, a pull toward the future that does not limit the artists to any point of departure nor end. Rather, we feel swayed toward the evolution of the work as we follow the artists that are engaged in a dynamic and ever-changing movement of interpretation, translation, and transformation.
© Josée Pedneault
© Josée Pedneault
