Katherine Duclos begins every work of art with a color palette and without a plan. The artist based in Vancouver, who places modular Lego bricks one after the other, builds up intuitively and begins a repetitive process in which she introduces color before re-arranging color.
Duclos' recent solo exhibition with the apt title ” The light and the color we wearreinforces the overarching importance of the color within the artist's practice. She created her recent collection during a great shift when she moved to a new home with her family. The more neurodent artist held on to color as an earth power and formed connections between the specific colors and lights, which she would miss in her previous home.
In a statement from the Vancouver Art Gallery it says:
Times of the transition and the revolution are particularly difficult for autistic families, and Katherine's need to order their world became more intense than their home became more chaotic and the future seemed unclear. In order to better prepare for the changes, she focused on regulatory work, which made it possible for her to feel a feeling of control and order in the middle of the chaos.
Through disabilities with spatial processing and rotating images, Duclos will get on some obstacles with the diagrams and instructions associated with the conventional LEGO kit. “I never enjoyed Lego until my son handed me four flat pieces when he was 5 years old and said: 'I thought they wanted these colors side by side.' That was my light bulb moment, ”she says. Every lively fusion promotes the movement and fluctuation despite the stiff, blocked nature of the material to hang it.
Ducos creates work to prepare for an upcoming individual exhibition in January of next year. Keep an eye on your work via Instagram and the artist's website.
