The exhibition Views from Above by Emmanuelle Duret in CBC arts

December 9, 2022

Last week in CBC Arts, Didier Morelli wrote an article about the work of artist Emmanuelle Duret and her exhibition Views from Above presented at Galerie de l’UQAM until January 21, 2023.

« Playing with proximity and distance, the artist aptly draws on the photographic archives of concentration camps. The juxtaposition reminds us that we owe many of the horrifying, historical images to the lens of Allied soldiers liberating camps or the flight of aerial photo-analysts working for intelligence services. This is echoed in the exhibition title, Views from Above, evoking the many perspectives of barrack #5 Duret builds upon. It gestures to a shift in our way of looking at things, a tilting of the prism to see a particular place, situation, or historical event anew. »