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Les Documents ou disparaître en blanc Cheryl Rondeau January 14 - February 11, 2006.

Les documents is a series of brief portraits comprising manipulated, found footage and presented as a large-format, dual projection video installation. Each of the 100 portraits lasts a mere second but captures a female subject gesturing toward the camera/viewer. Although punctuated by moments of white, this sequence of moving imagery is rhythmic, continuous and unyielding. Each dispossessed subject is engaged in a similar moment - a turn, look, shrug, glance, nod or stare - all invisibly common within the original cinematic context from which each segment is drawn. These slow motion studies enhance the movement and become preoccupied with nuanced detail while curiously leveling or equalizing the vignettes - characteristics become remarkably interchangeable. Now fragments of horror could be instances of seduction and flashes of surprise might just as likely be periods of repose. An aesthetic of brevity and heavy stylization coupled with layered audio drawn from soundtracks, television and urban commotion advances this seemingly random and non-linear viewing experience. Bio Born in St. Catharines (Canada) Cheryl Rondeau studied photography and video at the Ontario College of Art (Toronto) and has a Bachelor of Arts in Social/Cultural Anthropology from the University of Toronto. She is a visual artist whose work has been included in exhibitions and festivals internationally. Rondeau is co-founder of Elements collective. She is also Co-Editor and Photographer of Metro: Chronicles in the First Person, a print and internet-based publication committed to the investigation of international cultural practice. http://www.cherylrondeau.ca