Agora antique, Athènes | Celia Perrin-Sidarous
2016
16 x 19.25 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Agora antique, Athènes (2016) is part of her series Notte Coralli, first exhibited at the most recent Montreal Biennale. Large stones give evidence of both human intervention, in their right-angled edges, and the natural erosion that has altered them across millenia. Dusty pinks, warm grays, and a soft-blue sky bring to mind family-trip photographs shot on Kodak Ektachrome, a film stock that was immensely popularduring the second half of the twentieth century. The ancient Greek agora was a gathering place; in filtering the present through past eras, both recent and antiquated, Sidarous performs her own act of gathering.
ABOUT CELIA PERRIN SIDAROUS
Born born 1982, Montréal, QC
Lives and works Montréal, QC
Represented by Parisian Laundry
Montreal-based artist Celia Perrin Sidarous uses photography, film, sculpture, and installations to reveal the layers of meaning that accrue to objects over time. Her meticulous arrangements, both within individual images and in her exhibitions, juxtapose the personal and the historical, the modern and the ancient, the ephemeral and the enduring. In bringing disparate items and scenes together, and by unifying them through her choices of composition and palette, Sidarous short-circuits our attempts to find specific references. Instead, her work evokes atmospheres—alternately light-filled and slightly melancholic, as in many of her landscapes, or tenebrous and reverential, as in her still lifes.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Celia Perrin Sidarous,” Parisian Laundry, Montréal (2018); “a shape to your shadow,” Campbell House Museum, Contact Photography Festival, Toronto (2017); “Interiors, Other Chambers”, Esker Foundation, Calgary (2015); “Roryn Sanat (Rory’s Words),” Kolin Ryynänen, Koli, Finland (2011), “Trouées” Les Territoires Centre d’art contemporain, Montréal (2009).
Selected group exhibitions: Eye to eye, Arsenal Contemporary, New York (2018); How Many Seas (with Outre Vie / Afterlife), West Bandra for Focus Festival, Mumbai (2017); PDA Lovers, Four Six One Nine, Los Angeles (2017); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal (2017); TRUCK, Calgary (2017); VU, Québec City (2016); Gallery 295, Vancouver (2014); It Might Also Choose to Unmake Itself, WWTWO, Montréal (2013); Contested Site: Archives and the City, FOFA Gallery, Montréal (2012); Les photocinégraphes : l’acte photographique au cinéma, Antitube at the Musée de la civilisation, Québec City, (2011); Personal space / Személyes tér, Gallery 44, Center for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2008).
Selected public collections: Art Gallery of Ontario
2016
16 x 19.25 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Agora antique, Athènes (2016) is part of her series Notte Coralli, first exhibited at the most recent Montreal Biennale. Large stones give evidence of both human intervention, in their right-angled edges, and the natural erosion that has altered them across millenia. Dusty pinks, warm grays, and a soft-blue sky bring to mind family-trip photographs shot on Kodak Ektachrome, a film stock that was immensely popularduring the second half of the twentieth century. The ancient Greek agora was a gathering place; in filtering the present through past eras, both recent and antiquated, Sidarous performs her own act of gathering.
ABOUT CELIA PERRIN SIDAROUS
Born born 1982, Montréal, QC
Lives and works Montréal, QC
Represented by Parisian Laundry
Montreal-based artist Celia Perrin Sidarous uses photography, film, sculpture, and installations to reveal the layers of meaning that accrue to objects over time. Her meticulous arrangements, both within individual images and in her exhibitions, juxtapose the personal and the historical, the modern and the ancient, the ephemeral and the enduring. In bringing disparate items and scenes together, and by unifying them through her choices of composition and palette, Sidarous short-circuits our attempts to find specific references. Instead, her work evokes atmospheres—alternately light-filled and slightly melancholic, as in many of her landscapes, or tenebrous and reverential, as in her still lifes.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Celia Perrin Sidarous,” Parisian Laundry, Montréal (2018); “a shape to your shadow,” Campbell House Museum, Contact Photography Festival, Toronto (2017); “Interiors, Other Chambers”, Esker Foundation, Calgary (2015); “Roryn Sanat (Rory’s Words),” Kolin Ryynänen, Koli, Finland (2011), “Trouées” Les Territoires Centre d’art contemporain, Montréal (2009).
Selected group exhibitions: Eye to eye, Arsenal Contemporary, New York (2018); How Many Seas (with Outre Vie / Afterlife), West Bandra for Focus Festival, Mumbai (2017); PDA Lovers, Four Six One Nine, Los Angeles (2017); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal (2017); TRUCK, Calgary (2017); VU, Québec City (2016); Gallery 295, Vancouver (2014); It Might Also Choose to Unmake Itself, WWTWO, Montréal (2013); Contested Site: Archives and the City, FOFA Gallery, Montréal (2012); Les photocinégraphes : l’acte photographique au cinéma, Antitube at the Musée de la civilisation, Québec City, (2011); Personal space / Személyes tér, Gallery 44, Center for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2008).
Selected public collections: Art Gallery of Ontario
2016
16 x 19.25 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Agora antique, Athènes (2016) is part of her series Notte Coralli, first exhibited at the most recent Montreal Biennale. Large stones give evidence of both human intervention, in their right-angled edges, and the natural erosion that has altered them across millenia. Dusty pinks, warm grays, and a soft-blue sky bring to mind family-trip photographs shot on Kodak Ektachrome, a film stock that was immensely popularduring the second half of the twentieth century. The ancient Greek agora was a gathering place; in filtering the present through past eras, both recent and antiquated, Sidarous performs her own act of gathering.
ABOUT CELIA PERRIN SIDAROUS
Born born 1982, Montréal, QC
Lives and works Montréal, QC
Represented by Parisian Laundry
Montreal-based artist Celia Perrin Sidarous uses photography, film, sculpture, and installations to reveal the layers of meaning that accrue to objects over time. Her meticulous arrangements, both within individual images and in her exhibitions, juxtapose the personal and the historical, the modern and the ancient, the ephemeral and the enduring. In bringing disparate items and scenes together, and by unifying them through her choices of composition and palette, Sidarous short-circuits our attempts to find specific references. Instead, her work evokes atmospheres—alternately light-filled and slightly melancholic, as in many of her landscapes, or tenebrous and reverential, as in her still lifes.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Celia Perrin Sidarous,” Parisian Laundry, Montréal (2018); “a shape to your shadow,” Campbell House Museum, Contact Photography Festival, Toronto (2017); “Interiors, Other Chambers”, Esker Foundation, Calgary (2015); “Roryn Sanat (Rory’s Words),” Kolin Ryynänen, Koli, Finland (2011), “Trouées” Les Territoires Centre d’art contemporain, Montréal (2009).
Selected group exhibitions: Eye to eye, Arsenal Contemporary, New York (2018); How Many Seas (with Outre Vie / Afterlife), West Bandra for Focus Festival, Mumbai (2017); PDA Lovers, Four Six One Nine, Los Angeles (2017); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal (2017); TRUCK, Calgary (2017); VU, Québec City (2016); Gallery 295, Vancouver (2014); It Might Also Choose to Unmake Itself, WWTWO, Montréal (2013); Contested Site: Archives and the City, FOFA Gallery, Montréal (2012); Les photocinégraphes : l’acte photographique au cinéma, Antitube at the Musée de la civilisation, Québec City, (2011); Personal space / Személyes tér, Gallery 44, Center for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2008).
Selected public collections: Art Gallery of Ontario