The Jury statement emphasizes Chantal Gervais' focus on the human body, it's fragility and issues of self-conception and self-reference.
An excerpt of the Jury Statement from the City of Ottawa website:
“For two decades, Chantal Gervais has focused on the frailty of the human body. By means of her photographs and her videos, she investigates, with sensitivity, the marks left by accidents, illness and aging. The prospect of death lurks as a subtext in her images. Anchored in contemporary concerns, her work searches for identities as referenced through her own body.
Her aesthetic choices have sublime aspects that arouse paradoxical feelings of attraction and repulsion. She accomplishes this through fragmentation of the body, isolation against a black background, the ambiguity of the role of the skin, and references to écorché. She often presents her works as polyptychs or large prints. In her recent works, she has abandoned the camera obscura and turned to the flatbed scanner and magnetic resonance imaging, pushing the photographic boundaries.”
The award will be presented on September 12, 2014 at the Karsh-Masson Gallery.
The Gallery, located at City Hall, will host an exhibition of her artwork from September 12 to October 19, 2014.
Facts:
http://ottawa.ca/en/residents/arts-culture-and-community/arts-theatre-music/karsh-award
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