2:00pm - 3:00pm
Dominique Rey
Dominique Rey is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes photography, video, performance, collage, and sculpture. Her work delves into peripheral subjectivities, from individuals and groups of people on the margins of dominant culture, to performance-based works that mine the terrain of the unconscious. She is interested in examining the outsider within society, as well as a deep sense of being we have of being strangers to ourselves. For this reason, she utilizes modes of fragmentation to explore the construction of self, as it relates to current experiences of dislocation and disorientation. Throughout her work there is “the tension of being outside one’s own desires, a palpable absence of certainty and longing for connection – both from within and without” (Sandra Fraser).
Her recent work focuses on practices of recontextualization and translation. One form this takes is in the creation of collages derived from her photographic archives that are then re-interpreted into large-scale sculptures that she considers photographic objects. The play of two dimensions within a three-dimensional space is an important facet of this work and forms the basis of her formal investigations. She is interested in pushing the boundary between photography and sculpture, reinvigorating ideas of surface, materiality, and illusion.
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