Project Description

Each painting in the installation You and Me (constructing identity) plays in an autoreferential cycle that constantly hovers between the perception of the part and the
whole. The project works with notions of site sensitive hanging, formal dissidence,
repetition and mistranslation to create a transformative context for each painting
within the larger tale of the exhibition in a kind of perfectly ordered chaos. The painting installation is neither shaped by urge nor method alone, but rather by a mix of intention and chance, suggesting the same could be said about the construction of our fleeting and ever changing identities.

Dan Brault wishes to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and Quebec city’s Première Ovation grant for its financial support. Additional thanks to Cynthia Dinan-Mitchell, Francine and Louis Brault, François Simard and Francis Labissonière for their precious help.

April 2011