Exhibition

Boundless Dialogues exhibition
Concordia University Webster Library, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
April 3 - 30, 2018
Curated by Melinda Reinhart, Senior Librarian emeritus

(photos of exhibition below)

Boundless Dialogues is centered on the intersection of artists’ books by master bookbinder Jacques Fournier with those of eight Concordia University undergraduate Studio Arts students who respond to his work. In the dialogues that emerge, the bookworks variously speak to the unconventional structures and materials or evocative stories that push boundaries of the traditional book format inherent to Jacques Fournier’s artists’ books. Through workshops and ongoing dialogues with him, students explored the boundless possibilities of the handmade book as art object.

Jacques Fournier, founder of Editions Roselin, is recognized internationally for his poetic and intellectually rigorous artists’ books constructed in a spirit of collaboration. In passing on his passion for interrogating the format of the book, Jacques Fournier has fostered an opening for students to reply in inventive ways.

The exhibition is the culmination of a eight-month project initiated by print media professors Bonnie Baxter, Jenny Lin, Stephanie Russ, and Patrick Visentin who worked in collaboration with Jacques Fournier and mentored students throughout the project. This project is inspired by Jacques’ donation of bookbinding equipment to the Print Media program area and his willingness to share his expertise.

Text: Melinda Reinhart, 2018

Photos: Isabelle Fleurelien, 2018

Top left: Jacques Fournier (concept and realization) in collaboration with Suzanne Jacob, Joël Des Rosiers and José Acquelin, Jaune Rouge Bleu, 2000; bottom left: Alix Roederer-Morin, Ayoye ouch, 2018; top right: Jacques Fournier (concept and realization) in collaboration with Madeleine Gagnon (text), Irene F. Whittome (imagery), San titre, 2008; bottom right: Jacques Fournier (concept and realization) in collaboration with Denise Desautels (text), Bonnie Baxter (digital images), Rose Desarroi, 2010.

Top: Jacques Fournier (concept and realization) in collaboration with Suzanne Jacob, Joël Des Rosiers and José Acquelin, Jaune Rouge Bleu, 2000; bottom: Alix Roederer-Morin, Ayoye ouch, 2018

Top left: Maurcio Aristizabal: non sense information: the endless loop, 2018; top right: Jacques Fournier (concept and realization) in collaboration with Denise Desautels, Hélène Dorion (text), Françoise Sullivan (painting): Ste. Sebastienne: Hommage à Louise Bourgeois, 2007; bottom: Jacques Fournier (concept and realization) in collaboration withEric Ormsby (text), Sylvia Safdie, (photographic works), Reflections of a Face, 2011

Left: Maurcio Aristizabal: non sense information: the endless loop, 2018; right: Jacques Fournier (concept and realization) in collaboration with Denise Desautels, Hélène Dorion (text), Françoise Sullivan (painting): Ste. Sebastienne: Hommage à Louise Bourgeois, 2007

Maurcio Aristizabal: non sense information: the endless loop, 2018

Jacques Fournier (concept and realization) in collaboration with

Eric Ormsby (text), Sylvia Safdie, (photographic works), Reflections of a Face, 2011

Alix Roederer-Morin, Ayoye ouch, 2018

Frédéric Lamontagne, aller.stop.non.oui.peut-être, 2018

Top left: Jacques Fournier (concept and realization) in collaboration with Edward Hillel (text and photograph), Le 6 avril 1944, 1999; top right: Lindsey Carter, Cargo, 2018; middle: Jacques Fournier (concept and realization) in collaboration with Etty Hillesum (text) and Charlotte Arnoux Saut (imagery), Hommage à Etty Hillesum, 2005; bottom: Nix Burox, Identity Materials, 2018.

Top: Jacques Fournier (concept and realization) in collaboration with

Etty Hillesum (text) and Charlotte Arnoux Saut (imagery), Hommage à Etty Hillesum, 2005; bottom: Nix Burox, Identity Materials, 2018.

Nix Burox, Identity Materials, 2018

Left: Jacques Fournier (concept and realization) in collaboration with Edward Hillel (text and photograph), Le 6 avril 1944, 1999; right: Lindsey Carter, Cargo, 2018.

Lindsey Carter, Cargo, 2018

Top: Shazia Ahmad, Breaking with Tradition: The Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch, 2018; middle: Cariston Fawcett, Broken Thread: Laughter and Tears, 2018;

bottom: Jacques Fournier, Travaux photographique, 1994.