Jocelyne Belcourt Salem – CCCA Canadian Art Database

Jocelyne Belcourt Salem

Jocelyne Belcourt Salem

Since 1985, Jocelyne Belcourt Salem has been discovered in regional and university galleries in Canada and abroad; his solo exhibitions have been numerous. From 1989 to 1994, his works were exhibited at the Workscene Gallery in Toronto. In 1993, she was a guest artist at the Linda Généreux Gallery also in Toronto. Group exhibitions give him visibility in numerous centers in Canada, Italy, Australia and more recently - again in Italy - with L'Enigma del Tempo in La Spezia. His bronze sculptural installation – in bas relief – “Bestiary” was designed for the sculpture garden of the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Belleair, Florida. In August 1999, on the occasion of the Francophonie Summit and the Symposium of Contemporary Art in Moncton, Belcourt Salem created an environmental installation on the Pedicodiac River. His approach has often taken the form of installations using large format photography or integrating into large spaces. Over the years, his gaze has rested on a panoply of images and symbols ranging from dormitory beds, mattresses, chalk, to houses... According to the artist, these images will continue to appear. 'expand since they directly feed into her thematic exploration of memory. More recently, the artist favors the production of installations which integrate with more intimate geographies, with personal places, with domestic interiors which challenge him since they bear the traces of the people who have passed through them. Belcourt Salem is also interested in text and words as a substitute for the image: language having the capacity to elevate itself to an art object, thus offering a more accessible, more universal scope. With his most recent exhibition “Surface Tension”, we are in a meditative space, where an ephemeral atmosphere is highlighted. We are waiting. A video projection which – through the latex and the bodily movements which are exploited – plunges us into uncertainty, illusion, hesitation. Without struggles, without conflicts. Just the waiting and anticipation of a potential breakthrough. The theme of memory can be glimpsed in its inherent force.

Creator Id: 530
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Female
Mediums: installation, photography, sculpture
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Work by Jocelyne Belcourt Salem

Gazebo

Work ID: 19985

Measurements: 487.68 x 243.84 x 182.88 cm

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Date Made: 1993

Materials: steel, screening, sod, speakers, recording of birdsongs

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Lullaby (Berceuse)

Work ID: 19987

Measurements: 243.84 x 182.88 x 121.92 cm

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Date Made: 1995

Materials: photostats of archival photos, plywood, archival toys, speakers, recorded nursery rhyme

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Lullaby (Berceuse)

Work ID: 19986

Measurements: 243.84 x 182.88 x 121.92 cm

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Date Made: 1995

Materials: photostats of archival photos, plywood, archival toys, speakers, recorded nursery rhyme

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Parallaxis: en avance de la memoire (detail)

Work ID: 19989

Measurements: 213.36 x 121.92 cm

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Date Made: 1996

Materials: eight photographic prints on mylar framed in acrylic, steel bases

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Parallaxis: en avance de la memoire

Work ID: 19988

Measurements: 213.36 x 121.92 cm

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Date Made: 1996

Materials: eight photographic prints on mylar framed in acrylic, steel bases

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Le Dortoir (A Sleeping Room), [detail]

Work ID: 64446

Measurements: 0.348 x 1.392 m

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Date Made: 1997

Materials: latex rubber

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Le dortoir (A Sleeping Room)

Work ID: 19994

Measurements: each 30.48 x 60.96 cm

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Date Made: 1997

Materials: steel with transferred photographs, sand-blasted glass

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Le dortoir (A Sleeping Room)

Work ID: 19993

Measurements: each 30.48 x 60.96 cm

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Date Made: 1997

Materials: steel with transferred photographs, sand-blasted glass

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Longitude/Latitude (detail)

Work ID: 19991

Description: shows continuous projection of film describing travel across Canada

Measurements: 6096 x 25.4 cm

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Date Made: 1997

Materials: eight tape players, sound recordings, steel, vinyl lettering, acrylic sheet, film projection

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Le dortoir (A Sleeping Room)

Work ID: 19992

Measurements: 3048 x 12192 cm

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Date Made: 1997

Materials: latex rubber

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Longitude/Latitude

Work ID: 19990

Description: four sound recordings play voices of homesteaders in Saskatchewan's French-speaking community; the film projection on the wall is Joyce Wieland's 'Reason Over Passion'

Measurements: eight tape players, sound recordings, steel, vinyl lettering, acrylic sheet, film projection

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Date Made: 1997

Materials: eight tape players, sound recordings, steel, vinyl lettering, acrylic sheet, film projection

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Glyphs

Work ID: 19995

Description: shorthand for "hidden heart beating" and "breath/breathe"

Measurements: each 40.64 x 40.64 cm

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Date Made: 1998

Materials: tooled lead sheeting on wood support

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Glyphs

Work ID: 19996

Description: shorthand for "hidden heart beating" and "breath/breathe"

Measurements: each 40.64 x 40.64 cm

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Date Made: 1998

Materials: tooled lead sheeting on wood support

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Les pieds dans la boue

Work ID: 19997

Description: site specific installation, Petitcodiac, Moncton, New Brunswick

Measurements: 4572 x 121.92 cm

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: corrugated PV, steel re-bar, laser-cut vinyl text

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Les pieds dans la boue (detail)

Work ID: 64447

Measurements: 5.22 x 0.1392 m

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: corrugated PV, steel re-bar, laser-cut vinyl text

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Les pieds dans la boue (detail)

Work ID: 19998

Description: site specific installation, Petitcodiac, Moncton, New Brunswick detail shows names of various cultures entering Canada via large rivers

Measurements: 4572 x 121.92 cm

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: corrugated PV, steel re-bar, laser-cut vinyl text

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Parallaxis (second stage)

Work ID: 64445

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Date Made: 1999

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Glimmer

Work ID: 19999

Description: site specific installation, Treemuseum, Gravenhurst, Ontario text sandblasted into steel lists inhabitants, both human and natural, of this forest recorded in the town archive

Measurements: each 10.16 x 15.24 cm

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Date Made: 2000

Materials: eighty stainless steel panels

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Glimmer (detail)

Work ID: 20000

Description: site specific installation, Treemuseum, Gravenhurst, Ontario text sandblasted into steel lists inhabitants, both human and natural, of this forest recorded in the town archive panels are mounted with springs to not harm trees

Measurements: each 10.16 x 15.24 cm

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Date Made: 2000

Materials: eighty stainless steel panels

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Insomnia (detail)

Work ID: 20002

Description: projection on the wall is of struggling sleeper

Measurements: 182.88 x 121.92 cm

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Date Made: 2000

Materials: digital prints, video projection

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Insomnia

Work ID: 20001

Description: projection on the wall is of struggling sleeper

Measurements: 182.88 x 121.92 cm

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Date Made: 2000

Materials: digital prints, video projection

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Where is Here?, (installation detail)

Work ID: 64449

Description: Courtesy of Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.

Measurements: various sizes

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Date Made: 2001

Materials: 2 maps and 1 aerial photograph of Ryde Lake

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Where is Here?, (installation detail)

Work ID: 64448

Measurements: 4' x 3'

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Date Made: 2001

Materials: single channel video projection

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Sometimes I dream, (installation detail)

Work ID: 64453

Measurements: photographs, each: 10 x 12; plexiglas: 12" x 24"

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Date Made: 2002

Materials: 8 photographs face mounted on plexiglas

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Sometimes I dream, (installation detail)

Work ID: 64452

Measurements: photograph: 10" x 12"; plexiglas: 12" x 24"

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Date Made: 2002

Materials: one of 8 photographs, mounted on plexiglas, on brackets

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Sometimes I dream, (installation detail)

Work ID: 64450

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Date Made: 2002

Materials: 8 embroidered pillow cases, pillows, brackets

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Sometimes I dream, (installation detail)

Work ID: 64451

Measurements: 10' x 12'

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Date Made: 2002

Materials: single channel video projection

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Surface Tension, (detail)

Work ID: 64456

Measurements: photographs, each: 12" x 24"

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Date Made: 2003

Materials: 2 chromagenic photographs surface mounted on plexiglas

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Surface Tension

Work ID: 64454

Measurements: 8' x 6'

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Date Made: 2003

Materials: latex rubber with projection of single channel video of performance

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Surface Tension, (general view)

Work ID: 64455

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Date Made: 2003

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA