Michèle Provost

"This exhibition catalogue documents Gatineau-based multimedia artist Michèle Provost's ambitious and poignant examination of the place of art and artists within a market-driven society. Highlighting the potential for commodification, she creates a liquidation sale of a line of handmade home décor items, aesthetically based on the legacy--both real and imagined--of an iconic Canadian artist of the twentieth century. Referencing the current craze for home-design, these tongue-in-cheek goods represent the contents needed to furnish a bedroom and a living room, yet are presented in the dismantled state of a shop's "final sale" section. In doing so, Provost points to an art world in which artists provide (and are themselves) the product, while also pointing to the consumer society in which this concept is embraced in favour of meaning and truth."--