Time as a Line: exhibition by Janine-Annette Littmann

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The philosopher Henri Bergson argues that time is a qualitative construct. He asserts that time is not defined quantitatively as in the length of a line, but as an experiential sensation, as felt through the action tracing one's finger along this line. My exhibition La durée personifies this concept: using it as a starting point to examine my experience of our current moment in time, as it began and evolved these past six months.

Beginning mid-march, I often found myself lying on the ground in my backyard, looking up into the sky. Fabric, thread and photography became my tools to investigate my new daily routine's psychological and philosophical underpinnings. The photographs are indexical records of the light and passage of time observed in my reclusive moments. The embroidery and cyanotypes represent my prologued tactile study of the photos and the sensation of time that they evoke. Together, these artworks are testimonies to my phenomenological experience of time, the tensions and suspended sentiments that mark these present days in which we live.

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La Maison des artistes visuels francophones is a center of contemporary artists working with the francophone community of Manitoba, the wider francophone community and all the bodies that interact with them. It supports the dissemination of works in all disciplines through exhibitions, exchanges, workshops and artist residencies. It offers particular support to emerging artists in the presentation of their first exhibitions and a suitable framework for proposals for more established artists and for curators. It is based on a critical dialogue in the orientation of its programming and its projects. Through networking and partnerships, La Maison des Artistes encourages openness to forms of expression from elsewhere to energize the community. For the professionalization of its members, it organizes training sessions, talks and forums.