ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Where do we come from?
An answer to this eternal question can be found in every religion: genesis stories are found in the Bible, the Rig Veda, the San Wu, the Koran, the Egyptian Book of the Dead. For some, the universe was hatched from a giant cosmic egg, for others it grew from the armpits of the giant Ymir.
But these stories don't satisfy our curiosity, and with the advances of science, the question "where do we come from?" has found new answers: we come from DNA, from stardust, from the Big Bang.

Has science replaced God?
The series of prints titled "Genesis Revisited" examines the contemporary reinterpretation of our genesis. Collaged onto texts from major world religions are images of actual "stardust", collected by the Stardust space probe in 2006. These works dovetail with the artist's earlier series "We are Stardust".
Alongside these new works the artist also presents three paintings from her earlier "Moon" series, which depict moons orbiting the planet Jupiter which harbour the possibility of extraterrestial life.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Bettina Forget is a visual artist living and working in Montreal, Quebec. Born in Germany, she has studied art at Central St-Martins School of Art in London, England and at Curtin University in Perth, Australia and Singapore.
Bettina's work focuses on the subject of astronomy, establishing a link between art and science. Pushing traditional painting techniques to their limits, she subjects her canvases to being frozen into ice, pummeled by rain and scorched by fire. She also invented a technique of cutting holes into stretched canvas and suspending smaller pieces of canvas in the voids, therefore turning paintings into three-dimensional objects.
Bettina is Director of Exhibitions of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA) and Vice President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) Montreal Centre.

FOR MORE INFO
go to the artist's website at
www.bettinaforget.com

Exhibition Dates:
October 23 - November 1, 2008
Exhibition Dates:
October 23, 2008, 5:30pm - 8:00pm