Genevieve Sideleau
"Covered (Sweater Project Series I)
Photo documentation of
knitted sculpture/performance piece
16" x 20" (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)
2006
Genevieve Sideleau was born in Montreal. She obtained her DEC in Fine Arts at John Abbott College, her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Concordia University and is presently pursuing her Master’s at Concordia. Her work is a visual dialogue which, recently, has explored the relationship of technology with common everyday objects.
Her interdisciplinary practice is concerned with questions of relationship to place and social context often presenting the suburban territory including everyday objects and the body as a vessel. Her recent projects explore performing and exhibiting in her own home along with changing her functioning rooms into non-functioning environments through installation.
Genevieve Sideleau lives and works in the region of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
| Identity. The relationship of the
self to others, to a place and to the layers of cloth that covers
us all. - Joan Simon |
Artist Statement:
Dedicated to exploring the body
and social context through an interdisciplinary practice, I frequently
use a repetitive and labor-intensive approach in my work that investigates
body/object relationships through a familiarity and memory of the quotidian.
The work intersects the real and the invented as the body (or absence
of) is often suggested, wrapped or replaced with everyday objects.
Interested in excessiveness,
obsessive behaviors as well as in the repetitive and meditative processes
we might find in domestic work and daily ritual, my concerns deal with
identity, memory and the question of home.
