January 24, 2007 - March 1, 2008
Exhibition + Catalogue
Illingworth Kerr Gallery | ACAD
Curated by Wayne Baerwaldt
Susan Turcot lives between Quebec and Europe. Her drawings give form to ongoing research projects, as a type of reportage on nature and culture divides and its various forms of representation driven into increasingly abstract forms. The exploitation of natural resources alters the environment in myriad ways, many having a negative and often irreversible impact. Turcot follows organized human activities that continue to reshape the surface of the planet.
The Canadian public has only recently been exposed to the consequences of extreme deforestation on people, animals and climate change. In Quebec, thanks to Richard Desjardins’ film L’Erreur boreale (1999), an emergency button has been pressed to inform the public, making companies more protective of information while continuing to increase productivity.
Turcot has developed new work around this environmental crisis. Her contribution takes the form of 7 large drawings and a digital animation. Both forms investigate the systematic and rapid depletion of the highly fragile ecosystem that is Canada’s boreal forest north of Quebec City. She spent part of the summer of 2006 touring some of the thirty land packages-contrats d'approvisionment et d'amenagement forestier-that the Quebec government has signed over to forestry businesses.
Artist Talk Wednesday January 23, 2008/ Room 393 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | open to the public.
Visiting artist Susan Turcot working in the intaglio studio with Ken Webb (Print Media Faculty) to produce two etchings
Photos by Mercedes Ann Messaro-Webb
 Susan Turcott and Ken Webb (JPG, 58 KB) |
 Proofing (JPG, 62 KB) |
 Proofs (JPG, 107 KB) | ||
 Susan Turcott and Ken Webb (JPG, 90 KB) |
 Susan Turcott at work (JPG, 58 KB) |
 Susan Turcott reworking the plat (JPG, 62 KB) | ||
