Artistic Approach
Attracted early on to the ability of film to reveal the hidden meaning of things, to give access to the invisible through the eye of the camera, Jennifer Alleyn is now breaking down the frontiers between disciplines, broadening her artistic practice through installation and photography, . As a multidisciplinary artist, she draws on her academic training in both film and the visual arts to create works engaged in a dialogue with the medium. Consistent with her formative studies in documentary film, her work welcomes archiving, conservation and close examination to the shaping of the poetic idea.
Within her practice as well as in her everyday life, Jennifer struggles with the notion of finitude. Each work is an attempt to establish a dialogue with absence. Either through a montage of filmed images or an assemblage of photos or words, her works originate from a similar patchwork movement. She assembles lost pieces to recreate a presence, driven by the need to give body and significance to chaos. As multifaceted attempts to restore memory, her visual projects welcome repetition, variations. Throughout her research, she weaves a perceptible thread of exploration into the state of human existentialism and what makes it act/react.
Her visual arts creations emanate from a permanent gleaning of images and words, [inter]mingling reality and autofiction to address the themes of loss, fragility and displacement.
With a new desire to conquer tridimensional space, she invites photography, literature and poetry into immersive installation. The attempt of dialogue, either with the missing or the living, reveals the conflict between the profound, transformative human experience and the challenge to enunciate it.