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Colette Laliberté ~ Traffic
April 11 - May 20, 2003
Toronto based painter Colette Laliberté will be exhibiting her most recent body of work: large and small painted canvases that explore the nature of the highway and its role in our daily lives.
"I am interested in the impact of technology in our day-to-day life and how the world folds and unfolds, enravels and unravels. I also look at the cultural, political and social transformation of our society. Some of the themes that are related to my work are the collective exodus from the rural to the urban environment and to our never-ending taste for speed and traffic, change and interchange. The evolution of this work led me to research the urban planning evolution, suburbs and road systems that allow us to flow through and access cities like Paris. It is the contrast between the organic grid layouts of that city with the geometric grid system of the North American cities that has triggered the current work."
"The organic circularity of Paris' neighborhoods inspires the web of intertwined, luminous loops suspended in space that you see in my work. The sweeping painting gesture of my brushwork emphasizes the idea of movement and time. The pictorial arrangements of road circuits stress our constant coming and going to nowhere.""My work is critical of our ways of living and of our fast paced existence. However, the painted sensual surfaces in subtle tones of saturated colours invite the observer to take a moment of rest and to reconsider beauty in a structured urban set-up. In this interplay of the eye of the beholder/the beheld, of seeing and not seeing, of positioning and movement I also speak of the permanence of the human presence. The painted circuits become a representation of the 'path' borrowed throughout our lifetime."
- Colette Laliberté
