Jeffery Mongrain
My site projects suggest a relationship of historic synchronicity. The contemporary image blended into the pristine Gothic space.
Most of our religious architecture defies the Post Modern aesthetic of appropriation. It continues to distinctly reference the meditative sensibilities of 13th and 14th century architecture. When a non narrative contemporary art object is sited in a space intended to only support a specific religious belief it can be both psychologically bruising and engaging to the congregation.
My site work is intended to raise questions in an environment that typically leads its daily members and defines answers. Even though these beautiful institutions have not made significant philosophical changes over the centuries the population has, in part due to both literacy and the mass communication available by current technologies.
When my work is the most successful it both visually fits the space and questions its politic.