About —
Small Chronicles of Everyday Violence is the first solo show devoted to artist Sophie Jodoin by a museum. The exhibition brings together some 100 works dealing with violence and the deep wounds it inflicts. Owing to the duo of vulnerability and suffering, the exhibition is infused with an unabated tension between the made-up and the real, between fulfilment and emptiness, between the commonplace and the tragic, between pain and hope, between indifference and commitment.
Sophie Jodoin is a multidisciplinary artist whose understated representation of the human figure, verging on abstraction, reduces it to its simplest expression. The works in this exhibition are a fascinating mix of drawings and collages inspired by the artist’s meditation on the suffering, both physical and mental, that is caused by violence. Violated, crippled and humiliated figures, represented with very few details, conjure up deceit, slyness and the irreparable damage inflicted by certain acts. Jodoin’s frank and brutal creations are small, but dramatic chronicles that poignantly bear witness to the human condition.
Biography —
Born in Sainte-Madeleine, Sophie Jodoin has lived and worked in Montréal for some twenty years. Her drawings, paintings, photographs, and more recently her videos explore, examine and lay bare the human figure by underlining its profound vulnerability. Sophie Jodoin is represented by Battat Contemporary in Montréal. Her work is well-known in Canada and has been exhibited in Montréal, Toronto, Ottawa and Calgary. An illustrated booklet in English and French accompanies the exhibition.