Memory and Observation: Art by Monique Fouquet
Our featured artist for today is Monique Fouquet. Monique holds an MFA from Simon Fraser University and a PhD from the University of British Columbia. She works in various mediums, producing works that range from innocuous, quiet charcoal drawings to incongruously bright prints.
Mountain 2013, giclee print on Arches paper
Monique’s series of charcoal drawings are a subtle reflection on photographs and memory . The subjects of these drawings are figures from photographs of the past that the artist has collected, singling out people and small hints of scenery to allow us to look deeper into the associations behind the photograph itself – a look which wouldn’t be as simple with the complex colour palette and crowded scene that might have overtaken the original image.
This theme of memory and observation carries over into Monique’s prints, which combine fragmentary images of objects and places from the artist’s personal memories with bright, monochromatic negative space – the colours used in these prints tend to offset the darker tones of the photographs.
