Photos : Jean-Francois Allard
Magali Chouinard is a multidisciplinary artist. Since 2008, she has been converging her visual arts practice with puppetry and cinematography in an effort to deepen her poetic research on presence, movement and interiority through the representation of the body and its multiple essences.
Magali Chouinard has perfected her unique way of staging the virtual and performative body through a plurality of techniques (masks, full-body and hand-held puppets, mannequins, shadows and projections). Led by her desire to render the fragility of presence perceptible, her research brings together timeless characters and emotional states.
Her work is based on a visual and poetic dramaturgy that plays with scales, materials and presence effects through appearances and duplication. By deliberately creating confusion, Magali Chouinard leads spectators to let go of narrative logic. Instead, she invites them to experience the show as one would read a poem, letting themselves be carried by both the contemplative rhythm of metaphorical images and the emotions they conjure up within our inner self.
The staged work being a matter of memory, it is necessary to devote time and energy to imagine very strong visual constructions to ensure that the images remain engraved. The spectator is always free to appreciate or not, and in any case, he will integrate everything into his memory and the “dialogue” with the work will be established. Ushio Amagatsu, Choreographer and Butoh Dancer
Magali Chouinard is both artist and pedagogue, her shows can be complemented with lectures and intensive training sessions related to her creative process or to her various research approaches: mask and performative body, poetic dramaturgy, animated film – body and puppets.
TRANSLATION: Denise Babin @ denisebabin.com
Magali Chouinard has perfected her unique way of staging the virtual and performative body through a plurality of techniques (masks, full-body and hand-held puppets, mannequins, shadows and projections). Led by her desire to render the fragility of presence perceptible, her research brings together timeless characters and emotional states.
Her work is based on a visual and poetic dramaturgy that plays with scales, materials and presence effects through appearances and duplication. By deliberately creating confusion, Magali Chouinard leads spectators to let go of narrative logic. Instead, she invites them to experience the show as one would read a poem, letting themselves be carried by both the contemplative rhythm of metaphorical images and the emotions they conjure up within our inner self.
The staged work being a matter of memory, it is necessary to devote time and energy to imagine very strong visual constructions to ensure that the images remain engraved. The spectator is always free to appreciate or not, and in any case, he will integrate everything into his memory and the “dialogue” with the work will be established. Ushio Amagatsu, Choreographer and Butoh Dancer
Magali Chouinard is both artist and pedagogue, her shows can be complemented with lectures and intensive training sessions related to her creative process or to her various research approaches: mask and performative body, poetic dramaturgy, animated film – body and puppets.
TRANSLATION: Denise Babin @ denisebabin.com
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