Opening Reception: January 12, 2012 at 7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 2pm
Salon Connex: Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 6:30pm at Charlotte Street Arts Centre
Tokyo Hotel Story
Nathalie Daoust
Living in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec
A photographic exhibition including some in 3D.
Nathalie Daoust’s latest project, Tokyo Hotel Story, continues her exploration of female sexuality and subversion of gender stereotypes. Spending several months in the Alpha In, one of the biggest S&M “love hotels” in Japan, Daoust photographed 39 women of all ages in their private rooms, surrounded by the specialist equipment and dressed in the regalia that helps define their trade of Dominatrix. Her aim is to give a different insight into the women as dominating beings, which conflicts with the Japanese image of femininity, where women have become more passive beauties. Daoust believes that numerous challenges still exist in terms of confronting deep-rooted stereotypes of gender-roles, not only in Japan but in the world. Her work helps her to delve beyond taboos while showing the universal human desire to escape reality and create fantasy worlds that often oscillate between dream, reality and perversion. Tokyo Hotel Story is a series of photographs that underline Daoust’s passion for the surreal and the sensual, and which shine a light into the darker shadows not only of femininity but human sexuality in general.
Nathalie Daoust first broke onto the scene in 1997 while photographing the themed rooms of the Carlton Arms Hotel in New York. This project, her first solo exhibition, was then published into a book, New York Hotel Story. Since then, Daoust has created several new conceptual projects that have taken her all over the world, from the love hotels of Tokyo, to a brothel in Brazil, to a darkroom in Sydney, to the dreamy landscape of the snow-capped Swiss Alps. Her objective as an artist is to push the boundaries of photography through experimental methods. While working with new mediums and discovering new darkroom techniques, Daoust explores the undefinable realm between truth, fantasy, and the human desire of escapism.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day Fredericton’s favorite art exchange and reception is back! Tickets are now on sale for Gallery Connexion’s popular annual fundraiser. Put Your Heart Into Art will take place February 11th at 8pm in the Connexion showroom. Buy a ticket and walk away with a piece of original artwork, for you [...]
It’s back! Join fellow Gallery Connexion artists in putting your heart into art for our recurring fundraiser bonanza! The Fundraising Committee is presently calling on all artists to donate one (or more) piece(s) of art to Gallery Connexion. For each work donated, Gallery Connexion will sell one $75 ticket. By throwing a dart at a [...]
Sign up a friend to become a Gallery Connexion member during the month of December, and receive a free bundle of exhibition catalogs and other contemporary art publications such as back issues of Border Crossings and Canadian Art — for both you and your friend(s). Must be able to pick up your free gift(s) in [...]
