Montreal-based Cadieux is known for her large-scale photographic works exploring the body. Close-up views of wounds, such as scars and bruises, refer to experiences of suffering and trauma and their manifestations on the body. Cadieux is a professor at Concordia University and in 2011 was a recipient of a Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts.

Image: Geneviève Cadieux, Memory Gap, an Unexpected Beauty, 1988, dye-coupler print and mirror on wood, assembled: 208 x 472 x 14 cm; photograph: 208 x 335 x 14 cm; mirror: 208 x 137 x 14 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

For further reading, see:

Cadieux, Geneviève et al. Geneviève Cadieux. Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1999.

Cadieux, Geneviève, Annelie Pohlen, and Jan Foncé. “Geneviève Cadieux: A Situation.” In Geneviève Cadieux. Ostfildern: Cantz Verlag, 1994.