"French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards, after Cornelius Krieghoff (1848)" is a large scale tableau vivant HD video projection that recreates a work by 19th century painter Cornelius Krieghoff. This piece re-imagines Krieghoff’s lithograph, "French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards" that depicts a family playing cards around a table. Krieghoff’s piece, which is in the permanent collection at the National Gallery of Canada, fascinates me because it is a representation of early French Canadian life that mixes elements of documentary, allegory and humour. It also echoes the voyageur/settler/Métis iconography that I grew up learning about as part of my Franco-Manitoban heritage.
This event is sponsored by Evolution Presentation Technologies. For more information please go to www.evolutionav.ca .
This artwork is one of 12 recipients of the 2016 Illuminate the Night award. I would like to thank the Winnipeg Arts Council and Nuit Blanche Winnipeg for their financial support of my project. For more information about this event please go to http://nuitblanchewinnipeg.ca/ or the event page on the Culture Days website at https://culturedays.ca/en/2016-activities/view/57b0a86f-2828-49cd-b42c-05294c4a89be
French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards after Cornelius Krieghoff (1848), HD Video still, Jacquelyn Hébert, 2014
French Canadians Playing at Cards, Lithograph, Cornelius Krieghoff, !848, Collection of the National Gallery of Canada