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Yann Pocreau - Inaltérable

Jun 13, 2025 ~ May 24, 2026

"Inalterable," the result of a research-creation residency by artist Yann Pocreau, presented at the Colby-Curtis Museum.

Through a poetic and archival lens, Pocreau explores the power of light and memory by revisiting anonymous photographs and photographic objects from our collections — most of which have never been exhibited before. This original artistic project blurs the lines between presence and disappearance, fiction and heritage.

Portraits on display illustrate the technical evolution and history of photography, from its earliest beginnings to later commercial reproduction. The galleries’ domestic setting and the presence of photographic albums invite us to create a fictional family. Owing to powerful and enduring portrait conventions, the repetitive nature of the poses evokes a curious sense of timelessness, even across the centuries.

Through this photographic chamber, light is transformed into a figure or a landscape. From this gushing light, forms emerge from darkness. How many people once posed before John Joel Parker’s lens? If it is impossible for us to know, Pocreau immortalizes these figures by intervening directly on the historic object. This trace, destined to be altered, nevertheless reminds us of the tiny extra soul that is offered to us, visible.

We are sometimes surprised when we dare to look behind the scenes to discover unexpected landscapes and create new narratives. The multiple traces of light also create other, slightly blurred contours. They sculpt the exhibition space and tint surfaces with spectral colors. The photographic experience exists from the invisible material of light. What if all we had to do was look different?

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Musée Colby-Curtis
535, rue Dufferin, Stanstead, (Québec), J0B 3E0

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819 876-7322

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info@colbycurtis.ca

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