Sophie Jodoin

Win, lose or draw

Par Robyn Fadden
Publié: The Hour, 2009-03-19 00:00:00 -0400

Seventy-five black-framed drawings of faces half-hidden, half-merged with gas masks and helmets line a three-walled space at the sunlit Battat Contemporary gallery. Patterns emerge among them, but they never lose their lonely individuality, lined up as they are, an emotionally overwhelming, alienated armada. Such regimen coupled with fragility is a theme Montreal artist Sophie Jodoin has explored for many years....

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Exposition: Headgames: hoods, helmets & gasmasks
Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Sophie Jodoin - Headgames: Hoods, Helmets & Gasmasks

Par John K. Grande
Publié: Vie des arts (english edition) No 215, Summer 2009, p. 9., 2009-07-07 00:00:00 -0400

"As part of her ongoing War series, Jodoin's Headgames are arresting, not only for the paraphernalia of war these black conte on Mylar heads wear, but equally because they look seemingly innocent in many cases." (...) "The 75 dramatic drawings seen at Battat Contemporary have a processional beauty, in that each individual images is part of an ongoing sequence, and we read them within the continuity of the series, as an entity conceives of. Jodoin breathes life into age-old themes of war, social anomie and media's influence on our perception of truth with grace, talent and humility."

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Exposition: Headgames: hoods, helmets & gasmasks
Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Haunted: The Uncanny in the Drawings of Sophie Jodoin

Par James D. Campbell
Publié: Etc Montreal, 2009-09-01 00:00:00 -0400

If drawings can be hanunted by old memories, even primordial ones, then Sophie Jodoin's installation made for a replete haunting at the inaugural exhibition of the Battat Contemporary art space. Seventy-five black-framed drawings, mostly of monstrously expressive, mostly human heads (with some notable exceptions), might have had an impact far greater as an ensemble than separate drawings if the subjects of those drawings were not such powerfully individualistic personae in their own right. (...)

Exposition: Headgames: hoods, helmets & gasmasks
Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Rentrée hivernale partie 4

Par Éloi Desjardins
Publié: Un show de Mot'arts, 2011-01-26 00:00:00 -0500

" «Tant de morts pour si peu» de Sophie Jodoin chez Oboro. L’artiste exhibait, il y a déjà quelques mois à Clark, de grandes oeuvres sur papier. Cependant, Jodoin s’exprime mieux dans le petit format. Son dessin, sobre et spectaculaire à la fois, s’avère vraiment efficace. Une projection et une boîte lumineuse ajoutent aussi une belle diversité à l’exposition. Une des meilleures présentée au 4001 rue Berri depuis cet automne."

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Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Sophie Jodoin’s Uncanny Valley: A Road-trip through the Allusions and Illusions of You Have to Kill a Whole to Get a Little

Par Frozen Mammoth
Publié: Inside the Frozen Mammoth, 2011-01-27 00:00:00 -0500

" At once fragile and strong, her work breathes in pain, exhales tenderness. Her figures, often anonymous, exude a quiet intimacy. A headless pair of twins carry with them a sense of profound self-hood. There is an urge to tenderly pet the shadow of a black, black dog. When these unique pieces come together, they give rise to a paradoxical realm that we connect with on a deep level. We, too, live in paradox, in discomfort. (Perhaps) this is why it can be difficult to confront Jodoin’s work – it takes us on a journey to the uncanny valley where it resides, and upon arriving we discover we are somewhere recognizable, somewhere we’ve been before. "

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Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Sophie Jodoin : La part manquante

Par Claire Moeder
Publié: Rats de ville, 2011-01-28 00:00:00 -0500

" À l’invite du centre OBORO, Sophie Jodoin a conçu l’exposition Tant de morts pour si peu. Réalisées entre 2008 et 2010, les œuvres déclinent diverses images en suspens. Échappant sciemment à tout repère temporel ou spatial, elles produisent une mémoire impossible de la guerre et de ses souffrances. "

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Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Sophie Jodoin

Par James D. Campbell
Publié: Magenta Magazine, 2011-03-17 00:00:00 -0400

Sophie Jodoin is attempting something truly remarkable in her recent work: to name the darkness in our nature, going where angels fear to tread, as it were, in this pursuit, and palpably evoking the tremendum, or nameless Other, in the process. Her true subject matter is specifying this demonic alterity that threatens to swallow us whole and deprive us of our human wherewithal. She is a connoisseur of pain and we are, at first, unwilling voyeurs. But, soon enough and strangely, we never want to turn away.

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Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Canada at the New York Fairs: Art from the Upper North Side

Par BILL CLARKE
Publié: Canadian Art, 2012-03-15 00:00:00 -0400

" Volta first-timers Battat Contemporary presented an elegant arrangement of new collages and drawings by Sophie Jodoin bookended by two larger works—Close Your Eyes (2012), a black glass piece with the work’s titular words sandblasted into it, and the charcoal-and-pastel drawing Untitled (feet) (2012), in which a woman’s strappy-heeled feet dangle disturbingly from the top of the picture frame."

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Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Sophie Jodoin & Papier 12 @ Salut Bonjour

Par Salut Bonjour @ TVA
Publié: TVA, 2012-04-28 00:00:00 -0400

Entrevue avec l'artiste Sophie Jodoin @ TVA dans le cadre de la foire Papier12. --- Interview with Sophie Jodoin @ TVA during Papier12 Art fair.

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Artistes: Sophie Jodoin