Stage Directions: For the Rising Tide, For the Golden Hour, For Moon Time
three digital prints from medium format film
39 X 54 cm each
2012

The Fluid Exchange: ovum, milk, and sperm
plaster, latex, air, wood, and steel
2012

The Object Theatre Series: Acquisition, Exhibition, Deposition, Conservation, Storage
acrylic on canvas
200 x 250 cm each
2011

The Story of Architecture
Found book, gesso and ink
2012

Studio Work: 2010-2012
mixed media sculpture
30 x 35 x 214 cm
2012

Josée Aubin Ouellette

b. 06/01/86 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Currently lives in Glasgow

Statement

It is never an object’s choice to follow us. It is always us who take them. If it were their choice they would stay where they are awaiting a phenomenon that will move them. Their displacement depends on the shifting ground beneath them or on their exchange in a system foreign to them. Appropriation is hinged on the belief that theft is acceptable when it is in the best interest of the object, deemed to be in physical peril or undervalued by its current owners, to be taken. The only thing in an object’s power to do if it does not want to be with you is to self destruct.

The Object Manual, 2012