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  • © Philippe Hamelin, Image tirée d'une monobande en devenir, 2006-2012

    © Philippe Hamelin, Image tirée d’une monobande en devenir, 2006-2012

  • © Julie Tremble, Les Artifices, 2011

    © Julie Tremble, Les Artifices, 2011


La Fontaine et la chute


Philippe Hamelin & Julie Tremble (Montréal)


May 17 to June 9, 2012

Opening screening on May 17 at 6 pm, in the presence of the artists

The exhibition runs from May 17 to June 9, 2012
Tuesday to Saturday from noon to 5 pm
Exceptionally open on Sunday, May 27 for the Journée des musées montréalais
Fernand-Seguin Theatre of the Cinémathèque québécoise

The 70 minute program is presented in a loop

Fascinated by emotions and pixels (between which there is an almost semantic link, the pixel being the smallest homogeneous surface forming part of an image recorded by a computer system capable of being transmitted), the work of Philippe Hamelin and Julie Tremble depicts aggravated emotional states in an overabundance of visual effects in which the natural, paradoxically, arises out of artificial constructions.

At Dazibao’s invitation, together they designed the exhibition La Fontaine et la chute (The Fountain and the Fall) out of their most recent individual work. Experimental fiction, digital animation, synthetic images: these videos seek to convey states of existence—madness, fear, desire, solitude, loss—as geneses and ends of the world, as explosions and extinctions. The connection between the synthetic and the tangible, between the work and the viewer, is complex. All of them, despite their jubilant excess, bluntly bring out absence, emptiness and gaps.

The loop, beyond being a convenient format for an exhibition presented in a screening room, turns out to be an intense accelerator of video particles, one conducive to collisions, fissions and springing forths. The works thus follow on one after another and touch, without credits, to make up a program of about an hour in length. Each video, accommodating itself to viewers’ arrivals and departures, functions as both entry and exit point. Mounted in the sequence established for them, the works act on each other like principal propositions and like digressions, punctuation marks and relationship markers.

Up-side the program, Satellite jurassique, shown on the agora screen in the reception lobby of the Cinémathèque québécoise, was made jointly by the artists. A prehistorico-futuristic big bang, this spatio-temporal appendix introduces or concludes the program, depending on the trajectory of the viewer, like a vortex that plunges you into or makes you spring forth from The Fountain and the Fall.

Enjoy the trailer


Philippe Hamelin works with what connects special effects and affect. Using video or spatial montage, he tries to create poetic relationships between humans and technological media while questioning the relationships we enter into with and through technology. His work has been presented in art galleries and in several festivals in Canada and abroad. He holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Concordia University and is currently studying digital music at the Université de Montréal.

Julie Tremble ’s videos, nourished by film, visual art, literature and philosophy, explore the materiality of the emotions and the narrative quality of natural elements. She holds a master’s degree in film studies from the Université de Montréal and her work has been shown in art galleries and various festivals across Canada. She currently lives in Montreal, where she is involved in a number of cultural organisations.

Dazibao thanks the artists and the Cinémathèque québécoise for their generous collaboration as well as its members for their support.

Dazibao receives financial support from the Canada Council, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Conseil des arts de Montréal. Dazibao is a member of the Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec.




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