Nathalie Daoust was born
in Montreal, where she studied photography at the Cegep du Vieux-Montreal
before moving to New York City to start working on "New York Hotel
Story", her first solo published book. In 2001 she moved to Japan
to document the red light district of Tokyo. Since then she has created
several new thematic projects including "Entre Quatre Murs, Berlin",
"Street Kiss, Brazil" and "Frozen In Time, Switzerland"
and has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Canada,
The United States, Poland, Finland, France, Spain, England, Japan and
now Australia. Her photographs have been the subject of many publications
and have been awarded several prizes.
Frozen in Time is a series of photographs taken in Switzerland
during a 6 month residency exchange between Conseil des Arts et des Lettres
du Québec and the Christoph Merian Foundation. The black and white
photographs are taken with a pinhole camera and then subsequently hand-coloured
by Nathalie.
"During this stay, I was struck by the immanence and perpetuity of the Alps, as well as by the eerie perfection of its pungent peaks. Compelled to carefully register a response to this physical environment, these photographs reveal an acute sensitivity to the landscape, a fleeting moment standing still. I sought to maintain not only the memory of the place, but also my own state of mind while contemplating the scenery: that of someone who felt suspended in time and trapped in a surreal world.
These feelings arose from the discomforting
perception of abandonement and desolation that appeared when facing a
landscape that seemed flawless, physically creating the one route available
to those other states that we intuit but cannot inhabit. Thus, women appear
in the photographs in complete clash and asynchrony within their environment.
From this mise-en-scène emerged ambivalent images from an intense
pulsion, a sensation that falls between lightness and restlessness.
Since my very first experiments in photography I have been fascinated
by human behaviour and its various realities, by the ever present human
desire of escaping and living in a dream world. The aesthetic of my new
project continues and enriches this visual exploration at the border between
dream and reality by the feeling of escaping which it conveys, a sensation
often present in my previous projects.
My objective as an artist is to push the boundaries of photography through experimental methods, working with new mediums and discovering new techniques in the darkroom."
Nathalie Daoust November 2009
EXHIBITIONS
2009 Jackman Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Allan's Walk, Bendigo, Australia
2009 The Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Australia
2009 Punctum Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Vanilla Gallery Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Senac Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009 Caixa Cultural Sé, Galeria Octogonal e Floribela, Sao Paolo,
Brazil
2009 Gallery 44 - Centre for Contemporary Photography , Toronto, Canada
2009 SF09 SevillaFoto, Festival de fotografia, España
2009 Centre d'Artistes Voix Visuelle, Ottawa, Canada
2009 Coloquios de fotografia de Parana, Argentina
2008 Two Rivers Gallery, BC, Canada
2008 Contemporary Istanbul, art fair, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 International Festival of Photography, Fotoseptiembre, USA
2008 Licht Feld modern and contemporary art, Basel, Switzerland
2008 OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai, China
2008 Open Space Gallery, BC, Canada
2008 Contact, International Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
2008 Photography Center of UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2008 Third Space Gallery, NB, Canada
2008 Group exhibition, ArtBreak Gallery, NY, USA
2008 Red Gate Residency, China
2008 Salle Augustin-Chenier Gallery de Ville-Marie, Canada
2008 Lasalle Sia Praxis Space Gallery, Singapore
2008 Fringe Festival, Singapore
2008 Ottawa School of Art Gallery, Canada
2007 Centre d'exposition de Val-d'Or, Canada
2007 International Photography festival FotoEncuentro, La Paz, Bolivia
2007 McNish Gallery, California, USA
2007 Chapel Gallery, Saskatchewan, Canada, Canada
2007 CALQ, Residency, Fondation Christoph Merian, Basel, Switzerland
2007 White Water Gallery, ON, Canada
2007 Centre d’exposition de Mont-Laurier, Canada
2006 International Photography Festival Fotoamerica, Santiago, Chile
2006 Regart Gallery, Lévis, Canada
2006 Vitrine Gallery, Bruges, Belgium
2006 International Photography Festival FotoFestiwal, Lodz, Poland
2006 Wanted Paris Gallery, Paris, France
2006 Northern Photographic Centre, Finland
2006 Espace Virtuel Gallery, Chicoutimi, Canada
2006 Kunstlerheim-Luise, art installation, Berlin, Germany
2005 International Festival of Photography, Fotonoviembre, Spain
2005 International Festival of Photography, Fotoseptiembre, USA
2005 International Photo Fair in Lodz, Poland
2005 Gallery Luksfera, Warsaw, Poland
2004 L’Espace F Gallery, Matane, Canada
2004 International Festival of Photography, Fotoseptiembre, USA
2004 International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Poland
2004 Mac Zona, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Galeria Saladestar, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Museum Mont Saint-Hilaire, Canada
2003 L’œil de Poisson, Québec, Canada
2003 Group Exhibition, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Calgary, USA
2003 Maison de Culture Frontenac, Montréal, Canada
2003 Forest City Gallery, Ontario, Canada
2002 International Festival of Photography, Exposure, England
2002 Centre des Arts de Shawinigan, Canada
2002 Group exhibition Metropolitan Museum of Photography of Tokyo, Japan
2002 Centre d’exposition d’Amos, Canada
2002 Les Fameuse (Pratt & Whitney) Montréal, Canada
2002 Centre d'exposition de Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
2002 Salle Augustin-Chenier de Ville-Marie, Canada
2001 Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, New York, USA
2001 l'Espace F, Matane, Canada
2001 Centre d'artiste Vaste et Vague, Matane, Canada
2001 Group exhibition at the Cave Gallery, New York, USA
2001 Group exhibition at the Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2001 Group exhibition at the SideShow Gallery, New York, USA
2001 Group exhibition at the James Baird Gallery, Newfoundland, Canada
1999 L'Usine C Gallery, Montréal, Canada
1999 Carlton Arms Gallery, New York, USA
AWARDS
2003 Grand Prize for the "Lux Québec",
Canada
2003 First prize for the "Lux Québec" Photography Book
category, Canada
2003 First prize for the "Lux Québec" Personnel Research
category, Canada
2003 The Summit Creative Awards USA, the Gold Award for the New York Hotel
Story book, USA
2003 Grafika Magazine Contest, finalist, book category, Canada
2001 Prize for the "IIAC/IIPC" 6th international Art/Photo contest,
Japan
2001 First prize for the "Lux Québec" art photography
category, Canada
2001 Prize for the international "Nikon" competition, Japan
1997 First prize Quartier Latin Contest, Canada
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