Nutri

“Annie France Noël unveils her experience with baby blues, or postpartum feelings, in a photographic installation at Galerie Murmur. Her photographs are intimate, treading a soft line between tenderness and pain: drops of milk escaping her hand, repeated notations of millilitre quantities, hands holding grains. “Les Baby Blues: Nutri” works through data Noël collected and the emotions surrounding her difficult experience with breastfeeding, reminding us to think about how to care and who to care for.  —Sarah Sarofim, editorial resident”
Art to See This Fall - Canadian Art - October 8, 2020

Guided by their own experiences, recent works by Annie France Noël deconstructs the difficult, hidden and ambivalent emotions of parenthood through self-portraiture, staging, and data processing.
The Nutri series adresses the grief of failing to breastfeed and the obsession of producing and extracting maternal milk, all the while dealing with postpartum baby blues. Working with the digital photographic medium as the primary material, various destructive interventions on the physical print bring attention to what is invisible (labour), hidden (shame) and lost (identity).

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Guidée par ses propres expériences, les œuvres récentes d'Annie France Noël déconstruisent les émotions difficiles, cachées et ambivalentes de la parentalité par l'autoportrait, la mise en scène et le traitement de données. La série Nutri aborde le deuil de l'échec de l'allaitement et l'obsession de produire et d'extraire le lait maternel, tout en faisant face aux baby blues postpartum. Travaillant avec le support photographique numérique comme base, diverses interventions destructives sur le tirage physique attirent l'attention sur ce qui est invisible (travail), caché (honte) et perdu (identité).