Clara Gutsche’s austerely beautiful photographs document an aspect of Québec society that is rapidly disappearing: its communities of religious women. A Montréal-based photographer, Gutsche gathered her images by living alongside the nuns in their convents. The photographs were taken with a large-format camera and are grouped in series of silver and chromogenic prints, many as large as 28″ x 36″. The formal, staged appearance of the images is in part an outcome of the technical apparatus, and in part a reflection of the subjects’ preferred mode of self-presentation.
- This exhibition has passed.
The Convent Series
February 13, 1999 - March 21, 1999
Clara Gutsche. Les Soeurs de la Visitation le grand parloir:The Large Parlour Ottawa (from The Convent Series). Épreuve par procédé chromogène, 72.5 x 92.5 cm (1992)
Clara Gutsche. Les Soeurs de la Visitation le grand parloir:The Large Parlour Ottawa (from The Convent Series). Épreuve par procédé chromogène, 72.5 x 92.5 cm (1992)
Clara Gutsche. Les Soeurs adoratrices du Précieux-Sang Les cellules:Cells Nicolet (from The Convent Series). Épreuve par procédé chromogène, 37.5 x 47.5 cm (1995)
