Scotiabank @ContactPhoto Festival - Alain Paiement "Over Here Over There" @BrookefieldPlace

 

Have you ever looked at something from a different angle or perspective and seen things that you hadn't seen in the past or realized things that weren't apparent before?  

Alain Paiement's outdoor exhibit titled "Over Here Over There" is a visual example of how different things appear from a unique vantage point.

Check out the images below to see what I saw and don't forget to read Scotia Contact's description of the "Over Here Over There" Exhibit.

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Alain Paiement’s over here over there (2009 - 2011) depicts real-life scenes volumetrically, presenting an improbable “bird’s-eye view” perspective. This project in Brookfield Place features a series of photographs covering the light wells located on the ground floor, creating a sensation of looking into the space below. In order to produce these vertiginous interior views, the artist has worked with axonometric projection technology, a 3D modelling software–typically used by architects, animators, and video game programmers–to render perspectives of space without a vanishing point. This effect is nearly unattainable through photography and beyond the limits of perception.

This latest work takes his preoccupation one step further by challenging the way we perceive and recognize shape and form. These images unravel the fallibility of perception, exposing how we interpret and give meaning to space.