Jacinthe Loranger | Bananapocalyspe Now?

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Jacinthe Loranger (Montreal, QC), "Bananapocalypse Now: See You in the Oblivion," nd

Opening reception and artist talk Nov 17, 7:30pm

In opposition to the banality of everyday life, Loranger makes surreal iconographies and narratives of paper, fragmenting mythological symbols.

Equal parts blatant humour and suppressed horror, Bananapocalypse Now? is a theatre stage where the players are activated (and complicated) by a variety of mythological symbols.

Loranger silkscreens drawings and patterns onto paper, then fills the gallery by forming wall-works and sculptures with their bright colour schemes. The final touch - varnishing them with sugar-water - gives the gallery a cotton-candy-like aroma, an untrustworthy sweetness.

The scenes represent the ruins of a place of worship, breaking boundaries between old, new, possible and impossible religions. Like a banana split under the summer sun, characters will melt together and fade into abstraction.

Bananpocalypse Now? is a still frame, frozen in time, between two states of decomposition.

Bio:

My fantastical fictions explore different universal emotions and psychological states. I use them to revisit mythology, cosmogony, and my personal relations to the sublime and to nature. In opposition to the banality of everyday life, my work offers a luminous, unhinged alternative world where every excess is a blissful celebration. 

My constructed narratives compose a multi-layered framework of a mystic quest. Creating my own mythology, derived from a patchwork of cultural references. Psychedelic and poetic scenes allow the coming together of unlike universes. These fantastical fictions explore various universal emotional and psychological states.