Elyse Longair is an artist, curator, and image theorist currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies at Queen’s University. Longair’s research focuses on collage history, collage as research creation and institutional strategies of collecting and curating collage. Among recent awards, she studied collage in Paris at The Centre Pompidou thanks to the David Edney Research Award and was awarded Exposure Emerging Photographer of the Year Award by Exposure Photography Festival earning her a solo exhibition at Contemporary Calgary. Her Infrathin Image Theory in collage examines artists who use a flat seamless aesthetic where the thin space or gap between image fragments becomes less and less, nearly invisible. In this thin, infrathin space, the viewer can imagine freely the possibility of the image, and the roles of picture making and imagination.
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