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Isabelle Hayeur
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Born in 1969, Isabelle Hayeur grew up in a small town on Québec’s North Shore. This outlying area was undergoing rapid development at the time.Born in 1969, Isabelle Hayeur grew up in a small town on Québec’s North Shore. This outlying area was undergoing rapid development at the time. The resulting transformation led Hayeur to feel as if she had lost her bearings, an experience that often accompanies life in the suburbs. This experience was to prove decisive for her work as an artist, as she became increasingly interested in exploring feelings of alienation, uprootedness and disenchantment. She would eventually be diagnosed as having Asperger Syndrome, which made it easier for her to understand her attraction to non-places, no man’s land and marginality. Isabelle is known for her photographs and her experimental videos. She has also realized public art commissions, several site-specific installations and photography books. Her work is situated within a critical approach to the environment, urban development and to social conditions. Since the late 1990s, she has been probing the territories she goes through to understand how our contemporary civilizations take over and fashion their environments. She is concerned about the evolution of places and communities in the neoliberal sociopolitical context we currently live in. Her artistic approach examines the relations between nature and culture in a world where their (false) opposition is a dominant ideology that still structures our Western societies.Show more
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