ISABELLE HAYEUR @ division

Dans le cadre de | part of Montréal / Brooklyn * Since the late 1990s, Isabelle Hayeur has been known for large-format digital montages her videos and her site-specific installations. Both appealing and alarming, her work present vast panoramas that denounce the no-man’s-lands that modern and contemporary civilizations allow to emerge. She invites us to observe the “landscape” dimension of the world with a foreign sentiment that places us on the lookout for modern and contemporary industrial developments. In her series “Underworlds”, Hayeur makes use of digital technology to reveal the existing tensions between aquatic ecosystems and the environments above. This body of work focuses on the Chemical Coast of New Jersey and the Rossville Boat Graveyard of Staten Island. A strange poetry arises as the artist approaches these modern monuments as if they were ruins. Between the critical regard and the disturbance, she creates a unique attraction, difficult to name or qualify, to these disenchanted zones, which are as if dehumanized because they are too humanized. Hayeur invites us to think about the states of the landscape and questions the impact of western development models on environment.

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