Rodney Graham

Born in 1949 in Vancouver (Canada), he lives there.

An artist recognized for his meticulousness and originality, Rodney Graham belongs to the “Vancouver School” (Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Ken Lum...) which, since the 1970s, has been developing a form of conceptual art focusing on the image but with significant theoretical underpinnings.  Rodney Graham has worked in every kind of medium,  from music, which he composes himself, to film, video, photography and literature. He came to notice through his “annexations” of works produced by other people, pushing their logical component parts to the point of absurdity. His experiences involving perception and optics led him to build a camera obscura with no reflecting mirror, and produce a series of photographs of trees upside down. His videos and films use mechanisms of repetition and looping which subvert notions of time and narrative and call to mind the mechanisms of the unconscious. They often put the artist at the hub of the arrangement in sorts of fables which waver between cautionary tale and burlesque comedy.

For le Printemps de septembre Graham will take over one of the ground floor rooms at les Abattoirs – Musée Frac Occitanie Toulouse.