Antoine Vogler
Fagments
2023
Analog photography print with liquid emulsion on rocks found in cruising grounds and bars from Montréal’s gay village, 10 rocks, various dimensions.
Artist statement
Art can be used as an ambassador for, or a testimony to what is happening in our time. Art can also be a vessel to transmit a message through times and generations. A bit like fossils which are studied to understand the evolution of life on Earth, artworks that lasts through time transmit information to future generations.
Erasure is a threat facing queer culture and communities. These Fagments were created in an attempt to preserve current queer culture. The rocks were collected from different cruising grounds, important sites for queer communities. Using liquid emulsion, portraits of gay and queer people and iconic places for the queer scenes were printed on the rocks. Displayed together like fossils in a museum, these Fagments illustrate a partial landscape of contemporary queer life in hopes of preserving it for future generations.
Artist’s biography
Antoine Vogler is an image-based artist located in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke completing a BFA in Photography at Concordia University.
His artistic practice is centered around the photographic medium. He likes to explore the materiality of the photographic object, which he understands as a form of imprint. This interest is reflected in the different printing methods he uses to present his work and that is why his artistic approach can take a sculptural form. Working primarily with analog photography, he likes to experiment with materials such as leather and rock as a medium to display images.
As a queer-identifying artist, one of his greatest sources of artistic inspiration is gay culture, its forms of transmission and the visual and sculptural artifacts that originate from it. Vogler’s work has been recently showed at Pierre-François Ouellette Gallery for the Art Matters Festival and he is the cofounder of Mes pants de queer, an online queer bookstore.
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