Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret ~Canada

Artist Statement:
Our environment undergoes changes at an unrestrained rhythm, applying constant modifications to our daily landscapes, as if the rhythm of our places had exceeded the pace of those which occupy them. In this situation of infinite mobilism, what are the impacts of the transformations of our territories on our identity ? Is the world crafted by man still understandable for mankind ? What are our reference marks ?

It is by sampling and fragmenting knowledges, impressions and memories that I question the bonds maintained with inhabited places and visited territories. These bonds can be of analytical, relational, dialogical and / or symbiotical nature. It is by exploring the possible material combinations between techniques such as infography, silkscreen printing, painting, drawing, sewing and embroiding that I question the brief and complex relations between the human body and it’s immediate space, with the individual mind and it’s ever changing territory, with the memory and the matter allowing it’s existence. Using canevas work, paper work and artist books, I propose sequences and installatives pathways fragmenting the vision and projecting new references marks.

My research tries to push the limits of the pictorial territory by merging new technologies, arte povera and feminine artisanal techniques.

Digital Landscape
By Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret
Quebec, Canada: Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret, 2008. Edition of 25.

7.5 x 11"; 32 pages. Silkscreen on stonehenge paper. Hand sewn binding paper cover.

Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret: "Digital Landscapes is a reflexion about the graphic construction of digital landscapes."
$225

Electronic City
By Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret
Montreal, Canada: Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret, 2008. Edition of 30.

5 x 40"; 16 pages. Double-sided accordion book. Silkscreen on Stonehenge paper.

Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret: "Electronic City is a reflection on the city and its future. The book opens like an architectural and graphic panorama. It's carried out from fragments of architecture and engineering images."

There is a stark beauty in the geometry of layered building and engineering grids. It's the beauty of sci-fi with a noticeable absence of human muddle.
$45

Outland
By Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret
Quebec, Canada: 2007. Edition of 15.

8.5 x 9.25";144 pages. Silkscreen print, embroidery and perforations on various papers. Sewn stab binding. Black and gray illustrated paper wraps.

Dupuis-Bourret: "Built like a remix, Outland pushes back the limits of the pictorial and book territory by borrowing and transforming images of various sources (Internet, educational books, books of references, maps, photographs and drawings) and by the hybridization of various techniques, mediums and supports."
$450 (Last Copy)

Séquence rurale / Rural Sequence
By Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret
Canada: Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret, 2004. Edition of 30.

11.75 x 4.5"; 38 pages. Silkscreen print, drawing and perforations on various papers. Glued and stapled binding. Paper cover.

Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret: "Séquence rurale is a kinetic narration punctuated of icons. These icons reminding us rurality and countryside elements. The book opens like a panorama built to nourish the eye. An improbable landscape had suddenly spoken. This book is related to the urban environment and to the notion of territory."
$75 (Last two copies)

Hop
Poem by Jean-Simon DesRochers
Canada: Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret, 2004. Edition of 35.

7 x 12" accordion book. A collaboration with Jean-Simon Des Rochers. Silkscreen printing and perforations on Stonehenge paper.

Andress-Anne Dupuis-Bourret: "Hop is a book on the kinetics and the movement. Mischievous and spontaneous, offering colors to the pop accents, almost resulting from comic strips, Hop is a wind of lightness carried by a winter breath. Hop includes two new poems of Jean-Simon DesRochers."

Text on side 1 printed in French:      (English translation not printed)
Dessine la danse                                  Design the dance
du pays dedans                                    of inner-land
si le temps                                             if time
est une                                                   page is a page
ou l'hiver decoupe le ciel.                 where winter cut the sky.

$45 (Five copies remaining)