Created as part of the LUX residency program offered by Main Film, OBORO, PRIM, and Vidéographe with support from CALQ, ALL THE IMAGES, a work by multidisciplinary artist Kim Kielhofner, explores the inherent coherence of present and past narratives.

Presented in the watermark in her works, the artist positions herself as the main subject in the construction of narratives that shape us as individuals. The progression of images, collages, and various elements visually portrays the unfolding of time and space throughout our lives. While Kielhofner’s narrative acts as an anchor or entry point into our journey within the artwork, ALL THE IMAGES ultimately blurs our direct experience of the pieces, akin to traversing a mirror, intertwining it with the artist’s distinctive path.

The artist wishes to thank Barbara Ulrich, Julie Tremble, Christine Boudreau, Marianna Milhorat, David Martineau Lachance, Andras Csazar, Sam Meech, Aaron Pollard, Alexis Landriault, Sami Zenderoudi, Lili Michaud, Siam Obregón and the teams of Vidéographe and Occurrence.

Works presented

ALL THE IMAGES

Kim Kielhofner

8 min 57 s

2020

ALL THE IMAGES is a video installation that takes on an imagined future. There has been a cataclysmic event that has made tracing a coherent meaning of the past and recounting a narrative of the present impossible. The imaginary space of ALL THE IMAGES is unfixed, constantly being defined by what has happened before without ever knowing what it is. The space interrogates the possibilities and authenticity of the image. It is fragmentary, building temporary structures (collages) for hypotheses to gather and then releasing them to be re-formed.

The Coldest Day of the Year

Kim Kielhofner

8 min 36 s

2020

The Coldest Day of the Year takes place in a future where there has been a cataclysmic event that has made tracing a coherent meaning of the past and recounting a narrative of the present impossible. The narrator believes she has seen another being in this destroyed landscape. She attempts to find this figure and recounts a journey that traces the shadows of her presence. Using temporary sets, props and collaged images, The Coldest Day of the Year recounts an attempt to understand an ever-shifting horizon and possibility of dwelling.