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Emanuelle
Léonard
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The gaze that we cast on the
places that surround us and the workspace are also of
concern to Emmanuelle Léonard. Since 2001, she
has been developing a project in collaboration with
workers from all walks of life—real estate, arts
and leisure, science, education, public services, finance
and insurance, and more—inviting each to produce
images of their particular work space. Her role is limited
to selecting and then publishing the images in the form
of photographic installations, newspapers, or posters.
In her most recent installation, Statistical Landscape
(In the Eye of the Worker) (2004), created in collaboration
with workers in Toronto, the scale of the images makes
it possible to gauge how representative various sectors
of activity are. For the creation of these images, the
one directive she gave her collaborators was to photograph
their workplace without the presence of humans. The
emptiness of the spaces renders with greater ease the
gaze that the workers cast on them; rather than directing
our attention to the overall situation, it allows us
to see through the eyes of the worker, as the subtitle
of this series indicates. This procedure makes it possible
to introduce an aspect of the invisible that would otherwise
be inaccessible to the viewer.
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Emmanuelle Léonard, Statistical Landscape (in the
eye of the worker), 2004, 20 prints (variable dimensions),
ink jet, facemounted on plexisglass and posters, dimension of
the installation, 5 x 3,5 m. 1. Sean Tai (Information and
cultural industries), 53 cm x 36 cm; 2. Mike Collins
(Other services (except public administration), 53 cm x
33 cm; 3. Sean Reuther (Manufacturing), 104 cm x 69 cm;
4. Reno Strano (Administrative and support, waste management
and remediation services)), 63,5 cm x 46 cm. Courtesy of
the artist.
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