Catherine Garcia Cournoyer
“ When looking at photographs of our family, what stories do they tell us? What memories do they bring back? These shots can keep track of the past, but what happens when you do not recognize all the elements in the photograph? And what happens when it’s not about our own family, but about someone else’s?
During her residency, Catherine will draw inspiration from these questions and reflections. Her exploration, linked to the elaboration of her thesis for a Master of Arts degree, deals with the appropriation of her family photographs by photographic retouching. The selected images consist of photographs from the family on the father’s side of the artist. These photographs represent different events that the artist usually knows little about, except the fact that they are about members of her family “.
