REMAKES OF TRAVELLING   the project     Isabelle Hayeur, Canada, The Destinations series (2003) the gallery
	The Destinations series (2003) Doctoring my images, I compose vast panoramas that merge different sites into a single space. These landscapes appear to be familiar, but are constructed from many different images. I use the "transparency" of photography and the fact that it appears to be a direct representation of reality to fabricate spaces that are suspended between document and fiction. These possible worlds show us how easy it is for us to now manipulate and play with the world's realities. The Destinations series is based on photos of North American tourist attractions, nature preserves and towns. I have documented Cape Cod, the Everglades and the Mohave Desert, among others. Tourism conditions the way we look at the land. It is an industry that grows by creating a vast network of privileged and idealized points of view. By placing multiple sites in conjunction with one another, I make this mediated zone tangible. The highly mediatized world in which we live surrounds us with abstract spaces and manufactured environments. Our perceptions are inhabited by aspects of a technical culture that transforms, condenses and re-directs them toward a world that is increasingly constructed and orchestrated. A new space is gradually being engineered, one that is inextricably confounding reality and fiction. Dunes Harbour Peregnity Plaisance Sediments Thebaide Torrent Short Biography Born in 1969, Canadian artist, Isabelle Hayeur, lives and works in Montreal. She is working primarily in photography and video. She also realized Net art projects and site-specific works. She is currently a member of Year Zero One, an on-line artist run centre and collective which operates as a network for the dissemination of digital culture and new media.