Valérie Litalien
Critique
Valérie Litalien, née en 1982, dans la région de Montréal, littéraire de formation et de profession, elle travaille dans le milieu culturel, du livre entre autres, depuis plus de quinze ans. Elle s’intéresse spécialement à la manière dont les liens qui associent l’être humain à son environnement sont représentés dans les oeuvres scripturales, mais aussi photographiques, picturales, graphiques, sculpturales ou sonores.
Métamorphose du réel
Jocelyn Philibert / Marcel Blouin / Valérie Litalien / Bernard Schütze
Métamorphose du réel is the first monograph by Quebec artist Jocelyn Philibert.
"It is rare for a work to be so rich in ramifications. After all, it is only trees and landscapes. There are certainly characters in these shots, but they are doing very little. Nothing to upset the viewer. Nothing. Almost nothing. Yet in this almost nothing there are references to a deeply buried inner world. Without really understanding where they come from, we are overwhelmed by recurrences, references to mythology, art, art history, the representation of visible reality, reality, fiction, objectivity, free will, nostalgia for our origins—in short, the question "What have we been doing here for so long? Much of the power of Jocelyn Philibert's approach lies in his images, which offer immediate pleasure while opening up a vast field of logical, aesthetic, and metaphysical investigation." (Marcel Blouin)
Métamorphose du réel
23215;26 cm, 212 pages, approximately 150 four-color reproductions, hardcover
Co-published with Plein Sud édition
ISBN: 978-2-84314-043-3