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Lorraine Beaulieu
Lorraine Beaulieu lives and works in Québec, Canada.
Her multidisciplinary artwork queries our relationship with the environment. For her sculptures or site-specific installations, she often removes everyday man-made materials from their life cycle and she brings them again to life in an installation or a sculpture.
She regularly uses the photographic process of cyanotype for their deep blues and his link with climate’s element. Water issues are particularly represented in her artworks.
In 2007, her environmental involvement permitted her an artistic residency in Antarctica which had a deep influence on practice.
Her work has been showed in several countries on several continents. She completed M.F.A. in 2009 at University Laval and a B.F.A. to University of Québec to Trois-Rivières.
She obtained several grants for accomplishments and occasionally acts as independent Curator for artistic events. www.lorrainebeaulieu.com
The marriage of water and stone (NAT Art Residence- 06/2022)
After visiting the cave of Las Monedas, I was overwhelmed by a strong emotion, like a revelation that I was able to understand by transcribing it in writings. Then the stone and the water used me to deliver images and actions in this grandiose landscape that they shape together.
In this deep cave of Las Monedas, full of meanders, asperities, hollows, stalactites and stalagmites, water and stone have joined together and manifest with grandiloquence their energies, their forces and their contradictions.
It is as much a battlefield containing the remains of merciless clashes between these two elements.
It is also a baroque castle, built through the fiery marriage of these elements, letting us see their alliance transforming into volutes and shivers, the slides and rubbings sustained in time;
So many caresses form the water, so many supports offered by the stone;
From the eternal drip to the drip forming these columns that meet heaven and earth;
To feel these swirls of energy and to be deeply touched by the gigantic and organic architecture that results;
To feel the strength and courage, the impatience and imagination of water;
To feel the resistance, the hardness and the indulgence of stone;
To feel the mutual acceptance of these materials united in the noble perseverance of our becoming;
To see the beauty of their union, the incredible fluidity of the imagination to transform what is.
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Le mariage de l’eau et de la pierre
Suite à la visite de la grotte de Las Monedas, j’ai été envahie d’une forte émotion, comme une révélation que j’ai pu comprendre en la transcrivant dans des écrits. Ensuite la pierre et l’eau se sont servis de moi pour livrer des images et actions dans ce paysage grandiose qu’ils façonnent ensemble.
Dans cette grotte profonde de Las Monedas, pleine de méandres, d’aspérités, de creux, de stalactites et de stalagmites,
l’eau et la pierre se sont unis et manifestent avec grandiloquence leurs énergies, leurs forces et leurs contradictions.
Elle est comme un champs de batailles contenant les restes d’affrontements sans merci entre la pierre et l’eau.
Elle est aussi un château baroque, construit à travers le mariage fougueux de ces éléments, laissant voir leur alliance transformer en volutes et frissons, les glissements et frottements de leurs matières;
Autant de caresses de l’eau sur la pierre, autant de supports offerts par la pierre;
Des gouttes à gouttes éternels forment ces colonnes qui se rejoignent entre ciel et terre;
Ressentir ces tourbillons d’énergies et être profondément touchée par l’architecture gigantesque et organique qui en résulte;
Sentir la force et le courage, l’impatience et l’imagination de l’eau;
Sentir la résistance, la dureté et l’indulgence de la pierre;
Sentir l’acceptation mutuelle de ces matières réunies dans la persévérance noble de notre devenir;
Constater la beauté de leur union, l’incroyable fluidité de l’imagination à transformer ce qui est;
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