During the Rencontres in Gaspé, Jocelyne Alloucherie presented the exhibited Sirènes at the majestic historical site of Banc-de-Pêche-de-Paspébiac, where for centuries barrels of fish were shipped off to feed people all over the world. A multidisciplinary visual artist, Alloucherie traveled along the northeast coast of Newfoundland on board a fishing boat in order to photograph the ice drifts in this pristine setting. She returned with images with ancient, enigmatic bodies of ice that form a space of open representations.
These large-format boreal visions continue her exploration of the spatial aspect of the image. Born in Quebec in 1947, Jocelyne Alloucherie lives and works in Montreal. Her work has been appeared since 1973 in several solo and group exhibitions, in Canada and abroad. Alloucherie has been recognized with numerous prizes since the end of the 1980s, including the Prix Jean-Paul Riopelle (2006), the Prix Émile-Borduas (2002), and the Governor General’s Award (2000), three of the most distinguished visual arts awards in Canada.
Jocelyne Alloucherie is represented by the Galerie Françoise Paviot in Paris, the Galerie Roger Bellemare in Montreal, and the 511 Gallery in New York.
Jean-François Nadeau
