Paperworks. Notes de cours d'histoire de l'art 1

Irene F. Whittome

1977

Gift of Irene F. Whittome, inv. 1994.7a-i

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Seven framed artworks, each containing a grid of smaller images or text, are displayed in a gallery setting with a wooden floor. Seven framed artworks, each containing a grid of smaller images or text, are displayed in a gallery setting with a wooden floor. In this installation, multidisciplinary Canadian artist Irene Whittome applies ambiguous markings, erasures, colours and graphic signs to the class notes of an art history student at the Université de Montréal. At first sight, these interventions look like corrections or annotations, but their meaning is elusive. By reorganizing the notes and altering them with accumulated layers of wax, paper and graphic signs, Whittome leaves material traces of her intervention in the recording of knowledge, while resist