Geneviève Cadieux

La Voie lactée, 1992

Toit du MAC

© Geneviève Cadieux • Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay

Geneviève Cadieux, La Voie lactée, © Geneviève Cadieux • Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay

© Geneviève Cadieux • Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay

Geneviève Cadieux, La Voie lactée, © Geneviève Cadieux • Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay

© Geneviève Cadieux • Photo: Louis Lussier

Geneviève Cadieux, La Voie lactée, © Geneviève Cadieux • Photo: Louis Lussier

© Geneviève Cadieux • Photo: Louis Lussier

Geneviève Cadieux, La Voie lactée, © Geneviève Cadieux • Photo: Louis Lussier
Artist
Geneviève Cadieux
Title
La Voie lactée
Dimensions and medium
Light box, aluminum casing, inkjet print on translucent canvas, 1/2, 183 × 457 cm
Origin
Gift of the artist
Artwork description
Installed like a beacon on the roof of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, La Voie lactée has overlooked the city since the museum’s inauguration on rue Sainte-Catherine in 1992. Now considered a symbol of Montréal, this luminous image of a woman’s red lips rising against the sky both seduces and provokes. Characteristic of Cadieux’s interest in the human body and landscape as a means of expressing identity, the work carries multiple art historical references, including the giant, floating lips in Man Ray’s painting À l’heure de l’Observatoire – Les Amoureux (Observatory Time – The Lovers), from 1934; the Greek myth of Hera and her divine maternal milk, which gave us the Milky Way; and finally, the artist’s own personal life, the lips being those of her mother. In 2011, a second version titled La Voie lactée, was created as a mosaic for the Paris metro.

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