Past Residents
Past Resident2018: Canada Council for the Arts
Yann Pocreau
Yann Pocreau’s research has been focused on the narrative contributions suggested by light when it is staged in specific places. In his most recent projects, he puts forward traces of light and it’s presence as a subject. Though he works mostly with photography, Pocreau has experimented with other media, such as installation, animation, and sculpture, as he developed a series of interventions and works around artificial light, its materiality and its essential contribution to the artist’s photographic thought.
Yann Pocreau has exhibited work at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal; Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France; and Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, among others.
Yann Pocreau, Impermanence 1, 2017, digital proofs and photograms, 33 × 20 × 2 in. (83.82 × 50.8 × 5.08 cm)
Yann Pocreau, Answer to Painting 1, 2 and 3, 2017-18, digital proofs and photograms, 52 x 42 x 3 in. each
Yann Pocreau, Archeology, 2017, bronze and steel, 92 × 111 × 110 in. (233.68 × 281.94 × 279.4 cm)
Yann Pocreau, The Light / The Time, 2016, 772 light bulbs found in a hospital and a controller system, dimensions variable
Yann Pocreau, Catherdral, 2013, blue back paper, light system, and intervention, 552 × 152 in. (1402.08 × 386.08 cm)
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2018: Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
Paul Kuimet
Paul Kuimet works with photographic installations and 16 mm films, the subject matter of which ranges from landscapes and architecture to objects and works of art mainly from the Modernist discourse. Kuimet’s photographs are often displayed as lightboxes in darkened spaces, which heightens the viewers’ relationships to the physical and pictorial space. His films that are constructed as continuous loops are displayed in relation to the existing exhibition space further emphasizing their sculptural qualities rather than a narrative drive.
Paul Kuimet has exhibited work at WNTRP, Berlin; BOZAR- Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; and Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2018
November 9–November 10, 2018
Paul Kuimet, Golden Home, 2017, 16 mm film and rear projection, 4:26 min. loop
Paul Kuimet, Untitled Transparencies, 2017, 35 mm slide projection, 30 slides
Paul Kuimet, Exposure, 2016, black and white 16 mm film projection, 7:56 min loop
Paul Kuimet, Grid Study, 2016, photographic installation, gridded partition wall, and four black and white transparencies in light boxes, 44.5 × 44.5 in. each
Paul Kuimet, 2060, 2014, black and white 16 mm film projection on dual-sided screen, continuous loop
Past Resident2018: Wallace Arts Trust
Andy Leleisi’uao
“Andy Leleisi’uao’s art is about people and how they get on together as lovers, as families, as insiders and outsiders. As immigrants. News can be good and bad and it must be lived with… He shows how some lives are lived way over the line while also attempting to maintain and affirm love. Inconsistencies are included because opposites always co-exist.” Text by Ron Brownson, Senior Curator New Zealand and Pacific Art, Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki.
Andy Leleisi’uao has exhibited work at Bergman Gallery, New York; National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan; and Bridge Guard, Slovakia, among others.
Andy Leleisi’uao, Harmonic People, 2017, arcylic on canvas, 80 × 120 in. (203.2 × 304.8 cm)
Andy Leleisi’uao, An Unlovely Sorry (1 of 13), 2017, mixed media, 4 × 8 in. (10.16 × 20.32 cm)
Andy Leleisi’uao, UFO Islands (1 of 3), 2017, acrylic on canvas, 20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm)
Andy Leleisi’uao, Untitled, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 60 × 40 in. (152.4 × 101.6 cm)
Andy Leleisi’uao, Samoa mo Samoa, 2017, mixed media, 1378 × 78 in. (3500.12 × 198.12 cm)
