Migrations of the Arthropods

Migrations of the Arthropods
By Dominique Paul

chashama 303 Gallery
303 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY
(between 27th and 28th Streets)

July 23-July 27
Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 pm

Opening Reception: July 25 6-8 pm

Migrations of the Arthropods is a summer exhibition presenting a 2012 summer experience as the artist entered the water in New York City. The exhibition presents four video loops and photographs documenting the artist's journey as she prepares for global warming. During this process she builds wearable structures with recycled plastic bottles and various containers in order to transform herself into an insect, a species that will thrive with climate change. With the floating apparatus, she is ready to enter the water. In this piece, Paul proposes a reversal of Kafka's Metamorphosis – where being an insect is a tragedy – and presents it here as a strategy or a way to adapt. Dominique Paul was awarded a five month residency on Governors Island by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

About the artist:

Dominique Paul, Ph. D., is represented in New York by Guided by Invoices Gallery, in Montreal by Galerie Eric Devlin, and in France by Galerie Domi Nostrae. She shares her time between Montreal and New York. Since 2002, she has presented more than 15 solo exhibitions in North America and Europe. In 2012, she had a solo exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides in Canada and she was selected for a showcase of Quebec artists at the Guided by Invoices exhibition Under The Radar: The New Visionaries. In 2010, she was one of 15 artists selected for Art Montreal Contemporary in Shanghai Times Square as part of the World Expo. In 2010, she took part in The Man I which I Was, an internationally curated show at A.I.R. Gallery, New York and The First International Nano Art Exhibition, Studio 101, Suzhou, and in 2009, Metamorphoses, at the Paul-Dini Museum in France. She obtained a Ph.D. in photography and digital media at UQAM Quebec and a MFA in photography and media arts at UNSW, Sydney, Australia.

Dominique Paul wishes to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles du Québec for their financial support, as well as chashama for providing the gallery space and the Quebec Government Office in New York for their support to the opening reception.

For more information, please contact Dominique Paul at dominiquepaulh@yahoo.ca or check out www.dominiquepaul.net