“Studies have shown that each time you remember a past event, new neural connections are made that will change how you recall it next time. We remember our memories, which become copies of copies. This accumulation, where nothing is fixed among the flood of information, and any attempt to hold on mutates the very thing we try to grasp, finds form in Eckert’s work.”
Rose Bouthillier
Rose Bouthillier is a contemporary art curator and writer based in Maberly, NL. In addition to her independent practice, she is the Artistic Director of Bonavista Biennale. The research for this text was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Traces act as evidence of repression, dispersion, unlikely affinities, secret histories, kinship, and artistic lineages.
St. Pierre has developed this complexity—desire and aversion, serenity and gloom—in her practice over time, addressing the fallout of industrialized life ways, while avoiding simplistic critiques or appeals.