Geneviève Cadieux

Americas Society presented an exhibition of works by Geneviève Cadieux, a Canadian contemporary artist. The show featured photographs and one sculptural work: Souffle, 1996, a triptych of delicate blown-glass globes. The exhibition was curated by Stephane Aquin and Scott Watson.

Born in 1956, Cadieux lived and worked in Montreal. During the 1990s, Cadieux created a compelling body of photographic works whose subjects were nature, the human body, and relationships between the sexes. She presented each disparate subject in a similar format and with an equally intense emotional tenor, suggesting equivalencies and interrelationships among them. Their large scale, sparseness, and often tight, close-up framing gave them an emotional weight seemingly out of proportion to what was actually depicted.

Exhibition catalogue available.

^{The exhibition Geneviève Cadieux was organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver. It also traveled to the Art Gallery of Hamilton in Ontario. The program received support from the Canadian Consulate General, New York and the Québec Government House, New York.}

Installation view: Geneviève Cadieux. Americas Society. 2000.