assimilate the works according to that oxymoron,
conventional avant-gardist criteria. In portraiture,
already referred to above, she has made deft use of
her own family members to explore by suggestion
themes of attraction and alienation, and of aging.
In three of her most well-known works,Hear Me
With Your Eyesof 1989,Family Portraitof 1991,
andLa Voie lacte ́eof 1992, she has used, respec-
tively, her actress sister in a triptych which revealed
her at two intense moments some 10 years apart; an
installation of three large free-standing lightboxes
featuring enigmatic details of her father, mother,
and sister turned away from each other at the cor-
ners of a triangle; and a billboard-size view of her
mother’s lush mouth installed on the roof of the
Muse ́e d’art contemporarin in Montreal. Except for
Family Portrait, these works are not, at first, evident
as portrait statements; nonetheless, their effective-
ness depends on the viewer’s sense of identification
with the physical and psychological presence, even
the suffering, of another which underlies the impact
of portraiture.
Cadieux’s work has also been likened to porno-
graphy (e.g.,Loin de moi, et pre`sdu lointain [Far
From Me, Near to the Distance]1993, a photo-
graph showing a flaccid penis) although the only
work to be censored to date isBlue Fear, which
contrasted an older man’s naked back set against a
pair of large staring eyes. This work so disturbed
the older citizens of Plymouth, England, that, in
1992, the work was rejected for exhibition; notably,
it was to have been installed on Plymouth Hoe, a
seaside recreational site, not in a museum. How-
ever, the body does fascinate her, very like photo-
graphic emulsion, which is also sensitive and which
makes a record; it is like the body which ages and,
in Cadieux’s words, ‘‘qui enregistre le temps, la
peau qui enregistre les blessures’’ [and which
records time, skin which records wounds].
LILLYKoltunSeealso:Conceptual Photography; Photography in
Canada; Postmodernism; Wall, Jeff
Biography
Born in Montreal, Canada, 17 July 1955. Obtained a BA
with specialization in visual arts from the University of
Ottawa, Canada in 1977. In 1993, won a Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst to work in Berlin for
some months; over 1993–94, was artist in residence at
the E ́cole nationale supe ́rieure des beaux-arts in Paris,
France; in 1996, taught at the E ́cole d’art de Grenoble in
France; in 1997 at the Universitat Politecnica de Valen-
cia in Spain; and in 1998 at the College of Architecture
and the Arts, University of Illinois, Chicago. Lives in
Montreal, Canada, and teaches fine art there at Concor-
dia University.Individual Exhibitions
1977 Saw Gallery; Ottawa, Canada
1981 Galerie France Morin; Montreal, Canada
1982 Works by Genevie`ve Cadieux; Agnes Etherington Art
Centre, Queen’s University; Kingston, Canada; and The
Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Canada
1988 Genevie`ve Cadieux; The Power Plant; Toronto, Canada
1990 Canada XLIV Biennale di Venezia: Genevie`ve Cadieux;
Canadian Pavilion; Venice, Italy
1991 Genevie`ve Cadieux; Centre d’art contemporain de Ge-
ne`ve; Geneva, Switzerland
Kent Fine Art; New York
1992 Genevie`ve Cadieux; Institute of Contemporary Art;
London, England
Genevie`ve Cadieux; Institute of Contemporary Art;
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Genevie`ve Cadieux; Muse ́ede ́partemental d’art con-
temporain de Rochechouart; Rochechouart, France
Roppongi Square installation, organized by Sagacho
Exhibit Space; Tokyo, Japan
1993 Genevie`ve Cadieux; Centre d’art contemporain de
Montre ́al; Montreal, Canada
1994 Genevie`ve Cadieux; Bonner Kunstverein; Bonn, Ger-
many
Genevie`ve Cadieux; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst
Antwerpen (MUHKA); Antwerp, Belgium
Genevie`ve Cadieux; Nouveau Muse ́e/Institut d’Art
contemporain; Villeurbanne, France
1995 Body Currents; Cleveland Center for Contemporary
Art; Cleveland, Ohio
Angles Gallery; Santa Monica, California; and Pitts-
burgh Center for the Arts; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
(1996)
Genevie`ve Cadieux; Tate Gallery; London, England
1997 Genevie`ve Cadieux; Kunstforeningen; Copenhagen,
Denmark
Stephen Friedman Gallery; London, England
1998 Galleria S.A.L.E.S.; Rome, Italy
Miami Art Museum; Miami, Florida
1999 Genevie`ve Cadieux; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gal-
lery, University of British Columbia; Vancouver, Canada
2000 Genevie`ve Cadieux; Americas Society, New York
Beaverbrook Art Gallery; Fredericton, Canada
Genevie`ve Cadieux; Muse ́e des beaux-arts de Mon-
tre ́al; Canada
Genevie`ve Cadieux; Art Gallery of Hamilton; Canada
2001 Trafic, FRAC Haute-Normandie; Sotteville-le`s-Rouen,
France
Galerie Nathalie Obadia; Paris, FranceGroup Exhibitions
1978 Cadieux, Duchow, Erskine, Flomen, June; Galerie
Optica; Montreal, Canada
1984 Avant-sce`ne de l’imaginaire/Theatre of the Imagina-
tion; Muse ́e des beaux-arts de Montre ́al, Canada
1985 Aurora Borealis; Centre international d’art contem-
porain de Montre ́al; Montreal, CanadaCADIEUX, GENEVIE`VE