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LE MOIS DE LA PHOTO À MONTRÉAL

Isabelle Le Minh

Tous décavés

SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 17, 2015

Isabelle Le Minh, Tous décavés, September 10 - Octobre 17, 2015, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. Photo: Paul Litherland.
Isabelle Le Minh, Tous décavés, September 10 - Octobre 17, 2015, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. Photo: Paul Litherland.
Isabelle Le Minh, Tous décavés, September 10 - Octobre 17, 2015, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. Photo: Paul Litherland.
Isabelle Le Minh, Tous décavés, September 10 - Octobre 17, 2015, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. Photo: Paul Litherland.
Isabelle Le Minh, Tous décavés, September 10 - Octobre 17, 2015, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. Photo: Paul Litherland.
Isabelle Le Minh, Tous décavés, September 10 - Octobre 17, 2015, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. Photo: Paul Litherland.
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WITH

ISABELLE LE MINH

Saturday, September 12, 2015, 2pm-5pm

Opening @ SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art

EVENTS

Sunday, September 13, 1:30 pm

Conversation between Isabelle Le Minh and guest curator John Fontcuberta

@ The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Maxwell-Cummings Auditorium

Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion

1379 Sherbrooke Street West

Thursdays, September 17 & 24

October 1 & 8, 2015, 3:30pm-3:45pm

Guided tours for Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal

@ SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art

Friday September 25

Saturday September 26, 2015

beginning at 1PM and 2PM

TRACING OUR IMPRINTS

Art workshop for children ages 6 to 12

In collaboration with:

Les Journées de la culture

DOCUMENTATION

Press Release

INFORMATION

 

 

 

SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art presents, in partnership with Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Tous décavés by Isabelle Le Minh, a project specifically conceived for the biennial.

 

In Isabelle Le Minh’s project Tous décavés (2015), the artist works with identification techniques, from the physiognomic atlases and fingerprint files that began to appear in the nineteenth century, to today’s most sophisticated facial recognition systems. Le Minh’s work, with its countless traces of identity that we supply when we visit a Web site or operate a touch screen, offers a critique of the obsession with security since 9/11 and the subsequent frenzy to create biometric data banks.

 

Le Minh borrows the title of her show from Alphonse Bertillon, the inventor of forensic anthropometry. In his Manuel du portrait parlé, Bertillon employs the phrase “Décavés, tracez ça” as a mnemonic aid for remembering the abbreviations used to describe the shape of the human ear. D.K.V. (derived from Deq. car. vex) refers to an album containing hundreds of portraits of criminals.

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