Artist’s Statement
Eva Quintas’ work as a photographer is characterized by an openness to other disciplines, in particular literature and multimedia, and to narrative and interactive processes. Rooted in the ritual of portraiture, her work questions cultural identities and mythologies. In the construction of her images, she uses collage and photomontage, and calls upon a certain theatricality to refer to our manufactured perceptions of the other.
Biography
She has produced photographic exhibits, online art projects, and a video installation. Along with Montreal-based author Michel Lefebvre, she has created a work of photographic and literary fiction destined for web and CD-Rom, exhibit space format. Her recent work has been shown in the collective exhibit Art & Activism at the YYZ Artist’s Outlet (Toronto, 2006), during the public art event Habiter organised by the centre VU (Québec, 2006) and in a solo exhibition at the Galerie Verticale (Laval, 2007) and Galerie Luz (Montreal, 2007). She will participate in the Manif d’art in Québec City in Spring 2008. She is the chair-founder and the artistic director of Agence TOPO, an artist-run centre dedicated to multimedia creation.
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