The Slow Gaze/Le Regard Lent
September 20 - October 27, 2007
Opening Reception: Thursday Sept 20, 6 - 8 PM


Image: Paul Lacroix, de la serie Mises en abime angoissees

André Barrette
Cecilia Berkovic
Ève Cadieux
Jennifer Cherniack
Paul Lacroix
TEK

Image: Ève Cadieux, De lèinstallation Cabinet dèun imposteur sincere, 2006

The Slow Gaze is an exhibition of photography, video and installation presented jointly by Centre VU and
Gallery 44. The works included in this exhibition employ a specific kind of gaze, one characterised by an
enquiry into time, which are pervaded by a sense of infinitude and contemplation. Featured are three Toronto
artists Cecilia Berkovic, Tek and Jennifer Cherniack, and three Quebec City artists André Barrette, Ève
Cadieux and Paul Lacroix.

Gallery 44 and Centre VU have initiated this collaboration to share work and bring artists from these two cities
into contact with each other. By pooling our resources we have been able to create a very stimulating exchange
of ideas, one that offers new ways of thinking about a singular feature of contemporary Canadian photography.


Image: Jennifer Cherniack, Letter, 2006


André Barrette was born in Espanola, Ontario in 1958. He lives and works in Québec City, where he has been active in contemporary
photography circles for more than twenty years. His work has been exhibited in Québec, France and recently at Bunkier Sztuki
in Krakow, Poland. The exhibition Les rituels: parcours de chasse, a lyrical evocation of the world of hunters, was shown at VOX in
Montréal and Espace F in Matane, Québec. Since 2000, he has been creating sparse photographs with subtle colouring that maintain
an ambiguous relationship with their subject. ALL U CAN EAT will be exhibited in Havana in March 2008. André Barrette has worked
as VU’s production coordinator since 1995.

Cecilia Berkovic is a Toronto-based visual artist who uses strategies of collecting and displaying to explore aspects of romance, consumer
culture, leisure and identity. Not bound to a single medium, her work includes poster projects, limited edition objects, photography
and installation. She has exhibited widely in Canada, at venues such as Art Metropole, YYZ Artists’ Outlet and the Art Gallery of
Ontario. She is currently preparing for a solo show at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects. She is on the Board of Directors
at Gallery TPW in Toronto and also practices collaboratively with Toronto/Vancouver-based artist collective, Instant Coffee.

Ève Cadieux was born in Montréal in 1974 and lives in Québec City. She holds a Master’s degree in art history and visual art from
the Université de Montréal. Her work has been shown in Fotonoviembre VII in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Yugoslav Biennial of
Young Artists 2004 in Serbia and the exhibition La Disparition in Liège, Belgium, Warsaw, Poland and Québec City. Her solo exhibitions
include Le Costumier at La chambre blanche in Québec City and Traquer les trépas at José Martinez Gallery in Lyon, France and Yergeau
Gallery, Montréal. Her work explores the relationship between found objects and the nature of the photographic medium. Writing
has a special place in her work, in the form of installations and artist’s books. Cabinet d’un imposteur sincère was created in 2006
during an artistic residency at La Station in Nice, France.

Jennifer Cherniack is an emerging artist, curator and educator based in Toronto. Originally from Winnipeg, she earned her BFA in
2003 from the University of Western Ontario, and in 2004 was an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. In 2004,
Cherniack taught animation and film making at The National Film Board of Canada and photography at Regent Park Focus Media Arts
Centre. She currently works at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre as the Assistant Curator/Education Coordinator. With a
keen interest in arts education, Cherniack recently completed an independent photo-based project exploring wilderness travel and
communal living with a group of youth from Winnipeg. As an artist, Cherniack has exhibited in Venice, London (ON), Toronto, and
Winnipeg.

Paul Lacroix is a major figure in Québec contemporary art. He was born in Sainte-Marie de Beauce in 1929 and has taught at
the École des beaux-arts de Québec and Université Laval’s visual arts department. The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
mounted a major retrospective of his work in 1999. His most recent solo exhibition, Expositions: dessins/photographies, was shown at
Expression in Saint-Hyacinthe, the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides and the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke. Wellknown
for his drawings and sculptures, for the past several years he has been exploring photography. His evolving works, particularly
the unusual project, reveal his fascination with the ephemeral and the indeterminate in the creative process.

TEK was born in Seoul, Korea in 1978, he moved to Canada in 2000. Before moving to Toronto, he served as a surveillance photographer
for the South Korean Military and later in the Military-Press. After arriving in Toronto, TEK attended George Brown College and
later earned his BFA at The Ontario College of Art and Design with many awards and scholarships. TEK’s photo-based art has been
shown in numerous galleries across the country and collected by several companies. In his spare time, TEK is an avid competitive
cyclist and Korean gourmet chef. He currently works at Stephen Bulger Gallery and will be pursuing his MFA in near future.

EXHIBITION BROCHURE AND ESSAY BY LEAH SANDALS


Image: TEK, from What remains After Us - Remains, 2007