Jérôme Nadeau
Silent Songs

October 27, November 23, 2021

Galerie Nicolas Robert is proud to present Silent Songs, Jérôme Nadeau's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Interested in the notions of interdependence that exist within ecological, biological, and artificial systems, the artist's recent works focus on a series of motifs evoking the veiled complexity of structures existing beneath the surface of a world where the biosphere and infosphere constantly merge. In his new production, pathways emerge from the dormant functions of various devices and software. Networks blossom and circulate from one image to another revealing traces of an intimate correspondence between the machine and the natural world, recalling the mimetic relationship that exists between them. Working simultaneously in opposition and in concert with a multitude of digital and analog tools, Nadeau's artistic practice explores the sprawling structures of technology by looking into its infinite potential for reconfiguration. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, the material and the immaterial, the macroscopic and the microscopic, the works echo and mutate intuitively through a myriad of visual and conceptual connections. These metamorphoses allow new figures to emerge, suggesting a cryptic symbiosis of technology and the organic body.

Born in Lévis (QC), Jérôme Nadeau lives and works in Montréal (QC). He has an MFA in photography from Concordia University (2016). His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions notably at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2020), Galerie Nicolas Robert, Galerie René Blouin (2018), Occurrences (Montréal, 2016), Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery (2016), Battat Contemporary (2016), Parisian Laundry (2016), Gallery 44 (2014) and Gallery Monitor (Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014). He is the recipient of the Mildred Lande and Margot Lande Fellowship in Photography (2013) and Roloff Beny Fellowship in Photography (2015). Jérôme Nadeau is also the founder and co-director of soon.tw, a publishing house and contemporary art space.