Katherine Duclos Every artwork starts with a color palette and not a plan. By placing modular LEGO bricks one by one, the artist established in Vancouver intuitively builds up every dense composition and starts a repetitive process in which she introduces paint before re-arranging.
Duclos’ most recent solo show, appropriately entitled The light and the color that we wearStrengthens the umbrella meaning of color in the artist’s practice. She created her recent collection during a great service when she moved to a new house with her family. The neurodivergent artist kept color in color as an earth force, creating connections between the specific shades and lights that she would miss in her previous house.
A rack From the Vancouver Art Gallery reads:
Times of transition and unrest are particularly difficult for autistic families, and Katherine’s need to order her world became more intense as her house became more chaotic and the future seemed unclear. In order to better prepare herself for the changes, she focused on regulatory work that enabled her to feel a sense of control and order in the midst of the chaos.
Having a handicap with spatial processing and rotating images ensures that Duclos encounters some obstacles with the diagrams and instructions that are passed on the traditional LEGO kit. “I never enjoyed Lego until my son handed me four flat pieces when he was 5 and said,” I thought you would like these colors side by side. ” That was my light bulb moment, “she says.
Duclos creates work in preparation for a coming solo exhibition in January next year. Keep an eye on her work through Instagram And that of the artist website.
