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.
Gallery Connexion is an artist-run center in Fredericton, NB and presents contemporary art practices, including visual, performance, music, literary, and inter-disciplinary art. Gallery Connexion is seeking an Executive Director who is a creative innovator, has a passion for the visual arts and is committed to high quality, dynamic programming. As the successful candidate you will [...]
Artists and curators are invited to submit proposals for upcoming exhibitions in the Rick Burns Gallery, Gallery Connexion’s main exhibition space. Proposals will be for March 2013 to February 2014 programming. Deadline for proposals: March 31, 2012. Email submissions must be received by 9pm. Post submissions (on CD/DVD only) must be postmarked by the deadline [...]
Gallery Connexion’s Annual General Meeting will be held at 7 pm on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at Gallery Connexion, 440 York Street, Fredericton, NB (entrance from the main parking lot at the junction of Victoria and York Streets) Please join us for a review of the past year’s activities, an overview of the year to [...]
