Paméla Landry
Under My Skin
September 6–October 5, 2002

Excentriques (Off Centre) :  Constructed around notions of fetishism and the female body, Paméla Landry’s kinetic sculptures are a hybrid of low and high technology. Materials like hair, knifes and shieve all move about the gallery on randomly activated motors. In creating kinetic sculptures the artist plays upon the various extravagances produced at the expense of women’s bodies.

Le Centre de la caresse (The Hugging Center):  Construct from assemblages of heterogeneous objects, the masculine-looking of the three elements of The Hugging Centre lend their appearance to feminine voices, working towards a disturbing and unstable identity. The three interactive sculptures composing The Hugging Centre evoke different states of involvement, discovered and explored as one touches, embraces or simply listens. The ensemble is comprised of the Contentment Sector, The Needs Department and The Abandonment Wing.

Disheartened by the notion of a world where everything has its place and function, Paméla Landry proposes sculptures that divert and confound identitie, and offers them as alternative solutions. In her sculptures, the seeming coherence of a whole opens up to the derisive and absurd when manipulation and interaction occur. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions across Québec and Canada. Her most recent shows include À tes yeux at the centre d’exposition du Vieux-Palais de St-Jérôme, Le ludique at the Musée du Québec, Machining in the Digital Age ; Bricoleur Urbane at Open Space. She also curated Machines festives presented at La Centrale in 1999 and showing again at L’il de poisson in 2002. Paméla Landry lives and works in Montréal. She taught visual art at the Cégep du Vieux Montréal.