Geneviève Cadieux (; born 17 July 1955) is a Canadian artist known for her large-scale photographic and media works in urban settings. She lives in

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Education

Cadieux was born in

, Quebec in 1955. She received her BA in Visual Arts from

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Teaching

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, 1991 – present; * Guest professor, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, 1994; * École nationale des beaux-arts in Grenoble, 1996

Works

Geneviève Cadieux is a photographer who frequently works with audio-visual materials in her large-scale public installations in urban settings. Cadieux's work confronts identity, gender, and the body. She presents the body as a landscape, focusing on small details close-up, such as mouths, bruises, and scars. Cadieux's early career was mainly in film photography. Her 1989 work, ''Hear Me With Your Eyes'', was featured at the

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and consisted of large-scale photographic prints of a woman displaying sexually evocative facial expressions. Over time, Cadieux's work has shifted to integrating video and audio content, such as her ''Broken Memory''. The piece employed glass sculpture representative of the human body and a recorded reading of a 17th-century poem by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz. A notable video work by Cadieux was included as the inaugural piece of the 2002 ''The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision'', an undertaking by Creative Time and Panasonic wherein the 59th minute of each hour of the day saw an artistic image in place of regular programming. Cadieux's ''Portrait'' celebrated the regeneration and renewal of spring, featuring footage of a solitary tree, a lonely survivor of the 1998 ice storm in Montreal. One of Cadieux's most prominent works is her 1992 piece ''

La Voie lactée ''La Voie lactée'' (; "The Milky Way") is a public artwork by the Canadian artist Geneviève Cadieux. Since its unveiling in 1992, it has stood on the roof of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MACM), in the Quartier des spectacles d ...

'', a photograph of a woman's red lips displayed on the rooftop of the

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. It has since become an icon of Montréal. In 2011, a sister piece, ''La Voix lactée'', was commissioned by the

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as a gift for the

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, in exchange for the

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Parisian metro entrance at Square-Victoria-OACI station. Based on the theme of the French language binding France and Quebec, it features a mosaic reproduction of ''La Voie lactée'', accompanied by a poem by

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. It was installed at Saint-Lazare station. In 2019, her work ''FLOW/FLOTS'' was unveiled at

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of the

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Exhibitions

*Musée départemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart, France *Museum Van Hadendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium *The Montreal Biennial, Canada, 1985, 1986, 2000 *The São Paulo Biennial, Brazil, 1987 *The Sydney Biennial, Australia, 1987 and 1990 *The Venice Biennial, Italy, 1990 *Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 1993 *Tate Gallery, London, 1995 *Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 1996 *Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, 1998 *Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2000 *''The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision'', New York, 2002 * ''Geneviève Cadieux, Barcelone'', 2003–21,

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, 2021

Awards

* 1994

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from the Canada Council. *

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* 2011

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. * 2014 Fellow of the

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. * 2018

Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas The Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas is an award by the Government of Quebec that is part of the Prix du Québec, given to individuals who are artists or craftsman in the fields of visual arts, of the trades of art, architecture and the design. It is name ...

Notes

References

* Bélisle, Josée. "Acquisition récente" eneviève Cadieux Journal du MACM Vol. 11, no 1 (May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep 2000). * Cadieux, Geneviève. Geneviève Cadieux. Vancouver : Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1999. * Campeau, Sylvain. "Là ou l'expérience du dessaisissement : Geneviève Cadieux". Chambres obscures. Photographie et installation. Laval : Éditions Trois, 1995. * "Geneviève Cadieux". Contemporary Canadian artists. Toronto: Gale Canada, 1997. * Janus, Elizabeth. "Geneviève Cadieux". Parachute. Vol. 64 (Oct-Nov-Dec 1991). * Pontbriand, Chantal. "Geneviève Cadieux". The Canadian encyclopedia nline Historica, 2000. ited April 30, 2002

External links

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