Chromakenón

Rodney LaTourelle’s practice, a combination of architecture and visual art, explores affective relationships between colour and various spatial arrangements. Three-dimensional painted and custom-made environments establish an unfettered, geometric visual language the structured aspect of which changes with the spectator’s experience. Dealing with notions related to metaphysics and phenomenology that activate perceptual effects produced by the body and mind, his work is conceived around immersive installations built at various scales. He is currently focused on establishing specific relationships between colour, space, and the body, work that he is pursuing in the space at OPTICA.

De la piscine aux verts

Richard Deschênes’s work essentially examines the process of (de)forming, reproducing, and perceiving the image. He proposes what he loosely calls “imaginary models”: often using existing material such as reference documents and news clippings that he appropriates and recontextualizes, the artist systematically blurs the spectator’s visual and cognitive points of reference. His practice eschews foregone conclusions, whether they be formal—he employs painting, drawing, collage—or thematic—his work shifts between genre art and landscape, figuration and abstraction.