Jessica Arseneau
Jessica Arseneau is a multidisciplinary artist currently living in Leipzig, Germany. Her work embodies reflections on various aspects of mobility, in a specific environment or by investigating collective imaginary. Within performance, installation and digital media, her work takes the form of poetic gestures. She received a B.A. from the University of Moncton (2011) and was a member of the cooperative artist studio Atelier King Kong in Montréal (2013-2015). Public presentations include Fonderie Darling (Montréal), BronxArtSpace (New York), FI CFA (Moncton), Janaklees for Visual Art (Alexandrie), Traverse Vidéo (Toulouse) and HGB Galerie.
Lost Idyll shows a woman transporting a cumbersome scaffolding through various spacious landscapes and an autumnal forest. Ephemeral structures composing our urban landscape, the scaffolding characterizes the spectacle of everyday life and is a common figure of our collective imaginary. While this woman performs this Sisyphean movement, an ambiguity stands out between the object, suggesting a fixity and this perpetual passage. It recalls an everyday systematization that opposes itself to what is at the most transitory and indefinitely unfinished.