An initiative developed in collaboration between Dazibao (Montreal, Canada) and

Factory (Hjalteyri, Iceland), Out of Perfect Context plays upon apparent

incompatibilities and accentuated decontextualization to explore new forms of

collaboration and exhibition-making. Starting from our relationship with nature andthe role it plays in culture, the project proposes a meeting between urbanism and wide-open landscapes, image-making practices drawn from reality and others created entirely digitally, as well as an intersection, a confrontation even, between a fragile,

endangered nature and an idealized, magnified nature. Two exhibitions will be

presented, one at Dazibao, featuring works by Gústav Geir Bollason and Thorbjörg Jónsdóttir, and the other at Factory, featuring works by Julie Tremble and the duo Philippe-Aubert Gauthier and Tanya St-Pierre.

At times looking in from the outside and at others out from the inside, Out of Perfect Context underlines how sites and built environments influence our perception, and the ways in which we are part of the living world – or not.

In this exhibition at Factory, featuring works by Julie Tremble and the duo Philippe-Aubert Gauthier and Tanya St-Pierre, an intentful environment of cinematic realism, created from a corpus of entirely digitally generated or manipulated images, rubs shoulders with the Icelandic landscape’s bucolic grandeur and the site’s imposing architecture. In an unsettling dialogue between reality and digital fantasy, Julie Tremble's realer-than-life images juxtapose the magnificent views framed by the building's openings, while Gauthier and St-Pierre's meticulously fabulated domestic spaces endeavor to embed themselves within the industrial history and ruggedness of the same site. In this reciprocal interplay of influence, the porosity of images, places, and the materiality of what we see sets the gaze in a kind of vertical time, where the accumulation of temporalities acts on our perception of the world and its representations. Such perception is also shaped and sometimes distorted by a noteworthy presence of sound.

Curator: France Choinière

Artists: Julie Tremble, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier og Tanya Saint-Pierre