Fragmentum Opus
This series developed from an expanded engagement with museum collections, where historical painting was encountered through direct study and sustained observation. The focus shifted toward the museum as a constructed space that mediates relationships between artwork, viewer, artist, and cultural history.
Fragmentation became a primary strategy; not as an end in itself, but as a way in. Canonical images were approached through partial views, disruptions, and reframings that allowed them to be re-engaged rather than passively received. Masterworks were no longer treated as fixed objects, but as unstable, interfaceable surfaces that shift through attention and interpretation.
This series developed from an expanded engagement with museum collections, where historical painting was encountered through direct study and sustained observation. The focus shifted toward the museum as a constructed space that mediates relationships between artwork, viewer, artist, and cultural history.
Fragmentation became a primary strategy; not as an end in itself, but as a way in. Canonical images were approached through partial views, disruptions, and reframings that allowed them to be re-engaged rather than passively received. Masterworks were no longer treated as fixed objects, but as unstable, interfaceable surfaces that shift through attention and interpretation.
Philip Delisle: Fragmentum Opus
was exhibited: June 8 - September 22, 2013
Confederation Centre of the Arts,
145 Richmond Street, Charlottetown
was exhibited: June 8 - September 22, 2013
Confederation Centre of the Arts,
145 Richmond Street, Charlottetown
This work was created with the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Joseph Plaskett Award:
