ARTIE VIERKANT | PROFILE

MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image (formerly Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal) presents, in collaboration with Galerie B-312, Artie Vierkant | Profile from September 9 to October 14. It is the first exhibition of the artist in Quebec.

Artie Vierkant (United States) is a celebrity of the “post-Internet” generation, for whom the web serves less to disseminate or circulate images than to throw up smokescreens. He constantly questions all aspects of the very idea of manipulation. For the project Profile (2016), Vierkant engaged a specialized firm to photograph a male model with 3D digital line-scan images. 126 cameras were arranged in a sphere around the model to capture his features as he enacted a wide variety of expressions and movements. The resulting digital file made it possible to reanimate the actor in various photographic or video situations. From then on, the model was called “Profile,” a term that objectifies the human being who has been encoded and reduced to a dataset. Drawing on an inventory of classified and quantified sequences, Vierkant stages the “profile” in photographic prints composed entirely on the computer.

Mix and Match Tour : A Mix and Match Tour combining a guided tour of the exhibitions at Galerie B-312 and some of the satellite exhibitions takes place on October 7 at 12:30 p.m.

So you won’t miss anything in the 2017 edition, a detailed program is available for free at all of our exhibition partners and on momentabiennale.com.