Julie Forgues obtained her Bachelor's degree in visual arts at the Université de Moncton (Moncton) in 1995 and her MFA in Studio Arts – Photography at Concordia University (Montreal) in 1999. She is a professor of photography in the Department of Visual Arts at Université de Moncton since 2000 and was Head of the department between 2016 and 2024. Her work has been shown in solo and in groups exhibitions at the regional, national, and international level. Julie participated in the renowned artist residency at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai (2017-2018), where she was reinvited to show her work done at the residency, nowhere / now here, as part of the Shanghai PhotoFairs in September 2018. She has also participated in several other artist residency programs internationally, such as in China, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, and the Arctic Circle (2016 and 2023). She considers her photographic research as an intermediate between a space and a place.
“In the past few years, I have been working on a photographic research about how a space can be transformed into a place (place being a space with value), but can also fluctuate between both states. These in-betweens in landscapes are fluctuating lieu that I then render into photographic images. At every site that I have photographed, I think of what was, what is and what will be: spaces that are now places, but mostly places-spaces that are in a limbo-ing states. My work therefore makes this process of fluctuation visible.”
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Leave some for the angelsGlenfiddich 12 Glenfiddich 15 and Grant Family Reserve 5cl bottles Polaroid emulsion lifts - Installation view
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Leave some for the angelsGlenfiddich 12 Glenfiddich 15 and Grant Family Reserve 5cl bottles Polaroid emulsion lifts - detail
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Leave some for the angelsGrant Family Reserve 5cl bottles Polaroid emulsion lifts - detail
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Leave some to the mercy of stillnessTwelve silver gelatine positive prints developed with Glenfiddich 12 and repurposed charred oak cask heads - Installation view
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Leave some to the mercy of stillnessTwelve silver gelatine positive prints developed with Glenfiddich 12 and repurposed charred oak cask heads - Detail
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Leave some to the mercy of stillnessTwelve silver gelatine positive prints developed with Glenfiddich 12 and repurposed charred oak cask heads - Detail
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