Jessica Arseneau is an Acadian artist who approaches systems of representation and investigates the correspondence between community, place and collective imaginary. Her work takes shape in the performative gesture and its transformation, from the document of performance, such as video and still image, to fiction. The installations are configurations in space that suggest a suspended narrative — an implausible storyline existing in a temporal state between successive created actions of drama and those who have already taken place. Arseneau received her B.A. from the Université de Moncton (2011) and was a member of the artist studio Atelier King Kong from 2013 to 2015 (Montreal). Public presentations of her work occurred at art spaces such as Darling Foundry (Montreal), BronxArtSpace (New York), FICFA (Moncton) and Janaklees for Visual Arts (Alexandrie), Traverse Vidéo (Toulouse), HGB Galerie (Leipzig), Agora Collective (Berlin), Gallery 301 (Seoul). She currently studies in HGB Leipzig, Germany. -> http://jessarseneau.github.io
Work Works details and photo credits: 1. Field of Depth, 2019, 3 channels video installation 2. Untitled (It’s just a matter of utility), 2018, pvc and scaffolding 3. Axiom 2, 2017, in series Axiom digital photograph 4. Axiom 3, 2017 5. Axiom 4, 2017 6. Axiom 5, 2017 7. Naked Demand, 2017, in of series Naked Demand, digital photography 8. schmaler grat, 2017, performance and installation with Mandy Gehrt, photo credits: Falk Messerschmidt 9. schmaler grat, 2017 10. schmaler grat, 2017 11. Scenery for a Palimpsest, 2017, site specific installation at Marienborn border crossing memorial during exhibition Operation Grenze 12. Scenery for a Palimpsest, 2017 13. Scenery for a Palimpsest, 2017 14. Untitled (for choreography), 2017, digital video projection, korean traditional paper, metal, 2min. 30 loop 15. Untitled (for choreography), 2017, still frame 16. Transposition, 2017, Venetian blind and metal, 160 cm x 140 cm x 100 cm, Installation view at HGB Leipzig 17. A Thousand Times Nothing, 2016, (photo documentation of part 1) performance, approx. 40 min., photo credits: R. Larocque 18. Scale 1:1, 2016, digital print on canvas and latex paint on wall, print dimensions: 132cm x 252cm, photo credits: Alexander Lorenz 19. Lost Idyll, 2015, two channels digital video projection, 11 min. 55 sec., photo credits: Mathieu Leger 20. Lost Idyll, 2015 21. Lost Idyll, 2015 22. Lost Idyll, 2015 23. Lost Idyll, 2015