Ginette Legare
Mythodologies
September 13–October 6, 1991

“My work continues to investigate the act of representation, its structures and iconicities. The materials I use – slate tiles, roll of tar paper, wood and aluminum – participate as extensions of the body, projecting boundaries into zones of exchange and sedimentation. The flatness of some of the materials, their sign value – as well as the surface inscriptions embedded in them – recover organic layers implicit within the industrial and mechanical.

My current research focuses on the cutting and pasting of slate figures and other small constructs. It explores the organic-instrumentalist possibilities of a recovered-materials base – reinvesting the signs that tools are int a recursive reading of the body and its situation(s) in space. This new project is heuristic, both in procedure and intent. It introduces the use of found manufactures made of steel and other alloys in my work.”