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In 2009, Raphaëlle de Groot set in motion her long-term project, The Burden of Objects, inviting communities within Lethbridge to donate personal items that bear a certain ‘weight’ – to free themselves of these loaded objects and transfer that burden to her. For the next five years, de Groot’s collection would grow as she travelled throughout Canada, the United States, Mexico and Italy, using her peculiar objects to produce installations, performances, video, and photographs. Coming full circle, De Groot returns to Southern Alberta Art Gallery (SAAG), Art Gallery of Windsor (AGW) and Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) where her collection will be met with other items drawn from local museums and serve to further imagine the ways people build their stories with the objects around us. Her solo exhibition The Summit Meetings will be at SAAG from September 27 to November 23, 2014.
Raphaëlle de Groot presents her work actively in Canada and Europe and has collaborated and exhibited with Dare-dare (Montreal), the Centre d’histoire de Montréal, the Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella, Italy), the Leeds City Art Gallery (UK), the Galerie de l’UQAM (Montreal), the Quartier, Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper (France) and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge)
Raphaëlle de Groot holds an MFA from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2006). She was awarded the Pierre-Ayot prize (2006), the Prix Graff (2011) and the Sobey Award (2012). Raphaëlle de Groot is represented by the Galerie Graff in Montréal and the Z2O Galleria – Sara Zanin in Rome.
Raphaëlle de Groot, The Summit Meetings, 2014. Stop motion photogram. Photo by Laurence N. Béland.
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca