Name/Title
Faux Monuments Object #3Entry/Object ID
2014.13.05Description
Simone Rochon (b. 1983) is a Montreal-based artist working primarily in collage and sculpture. Inspired by architectural forms, she often creates artworks that appear unfinished and strange, creating a sense that the forms are malleable and fluid.
Faux Monuments #3 explores the tenuous relationship between architecture, monumentality, and fragility. The form appears unstable and fluid, yet it defies gravity as it stretches down, tightly hugging the white wall support. Rochon's precarious mounting creates a sense of unease. Rather than create a solid structure, the artist plays with the idea that monuments are enduring and unyielding and presents something flexible and ambiguous. What might be seen as a stiff canvas is turned into a limp sheet. Rochon undermines the machismo typically associated with the traditions of painting and architecture presenting a pseudo monument to alternative and marginalized ways of thinking and a future that embraces change.
Rochon received her Masters in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM in Montreal. Her work has been exhibited across Canada including in Toronto at Angell Gallery (2017), in Calgary at Art Commons (2017) and in Montreal at the Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges (2016). It can also be found in a number of private and public collections, including the Collection Desjardins d’œuvres d’art, the Prêt d’œuvres d’art collection of the MNBA, the Ville de Montréal and Loto-Québec collection.
https://www.simonerochon.com/Dimensions
Height
76 cmWidth
51.2 cmDepth
17 cm