With exhibitions in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, London and Paris over the past year or so, it’s safe to say that Regina-born, Montreal-based artist Jessica Eaton has rocketed onto the art radar in Canada and beyond.
One look at her work tells you why. Infused with stunning spectral geometries, her analog experiments—using hard-edged objects, reflective layers and light refractors which are then shot with large-format cameras—push the limits of light and image. It’s a process that strikes at the essential alchemy of photographic practice with a clever conceptual edge.
As critic Gabrielle Moser has noted: “It’s hard to discern just what we’re seeing in some of Eaton’s images. They encourage a prolonged process of contemplation, asking us to think about how we, and the camera, see. If we’re accustomed to seeing photographs as images frozen in time, Eaton’s works wriggle loose, teasing the eye with their refusal to stay fixed.”
This slideshow of recent works surveys Eaton’s ongoing examination of the flux between object, image and the magical properties of perception. To view, click on the Photos icon above.
