A Vulgar Picture
A Vulgar Picture
2010, colour photograph / épreuve photographique couleur
86 x 137 cm / 34 x 54 in. Edition of 7
A Vulgar Picture was produced in a studio as part of a shoot for the final episode of the Quebec television show
Mange ta Ville which aired in the fall of 2010. It was inspired by a trip I made this summer to
Sir John Soane's Museum in London. The museum's collection includes the original eight paintings in
William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress (1733). I had become enchanted with the series of etchings based on the paintings when I was an undergraduate student studying printmaking, so the opportunity to see the originals made a strong impression on me. In
A Vulgar Picture I have tried to distil aspects of these works into a single image.
The models include well-known singer-songwriter Pierre-Lapointe,
Mange ta Ville host Catherine Pogonat, actor Eric Bernier, the band
We Are Wolves, and the staff of
Mange ta Ville. All the props were culled from the basement of Radio Canada (CBC), I had them bring all the fake food, stuffed animals, and drinking jugs they had.
I had been interviewed for
Mange ta Ville in my old studio in 2009. The segment can be seen here (the host talking in the beginning is the queen type figure in my video):
Mange ta Ville: Adad Hannah
A Vulgar Picture, 2010, HD video, 6 min 36s. Edition of 5
This project has been presented in the following exhibitions: