There are no Limits: The work of Herménégilde Chiasson

 "Chaisson lives, works and positions himself within a philosophic and literary history that reaches between Appollinaire and Le refus globale, between early Michael Snow and late Jimmy Durham, between the uncertainties of Marcel Proust's construction and the uncertainties of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. He inhabits a terrain where exploration of "narrative" links film with photography with installation works with pulling prints. Since the terrain is mapped in many ways, it seems important, perhaps revealing, to show the range of his oeuvre - literary, visual, filmic - together.

 The visual works selected for There are no limits illustrate a restless search for visual form extending from work done as he graduated from Rochester to the present - a twenty-five year span. His initial training at Mount Allison was as a printmaker, but a camera has never been far away. In consequence, playing variations on a theme, working in sequences and telling stories, however oblique, have remained constants."

Excerpt from catalogue essay written by Charlotte Townsend-Gault