Valentine Alma
Valentine Alma
Honoring bodies, spirits, and community through art and ritual.
Chat des Artistes
2205 Parthenais
Tiohtia-ke, Montréal, QC , Canada
Photo Credits: Carlos Mao, Catherine Simard, Océane Leclair & Alex Tran
All artworks Property of Valentine Alma @All Right Reserved 2020
Play Bodies / Corps-Raccords
‘Play Bodies/Corps-Raccords’ is a social ecosystem of thirty partial oil portraits assembled around a wooden carousel, which can be spun by the viewer to create 225 different combinations. Marginalized and shamed bodies come together to form the missing image of Montreal’s queer community. The painting sessions were organized around a structure of consent and communication inspired by queer ethics in an effort to shift the traditional dynamics of power between model and painter.
Our bodies, beyond their objectified representations, are hidden from public view. We rely on faces to tell the stories of our origins. By removing this first identifier, I invite us to contemplate how much of our stories are woven underneath it. This reframing of portraiture is shaped around community, turning away from the capitalistic dogma of hyper-individualism and towards interconnectedness. I want to center the body as the common territory from which we experience life through a complex web of relationships enacted from and towards autonomous flesh.
In inviting the public into the piece and giving it a pivotal role in its display, I seek to create a participative approach to this exploration of liberatory possibilities, showcasing bodies that are rarely if ever seen. Faceless, nameless, clothesless, they reveal their essence beyond categorization, meeting each other in their shared vulnerabilities. This circle invokes a queerness of indiscriminate relationships, unpoliced intimacies, dissolving the boundaries that separate us in order to weave communities rooted in care, sensibility and a profound respect for all living bodies.
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