The quick word on this work is that these are, quite simply, photographs of sand.  Without seeing the imagery, that might not sound promising.  But of course the imagery is everything and the material is masterfully captured and employed to provide structure and metaphor for these pieces.

The imagery can be taken literally as pure abstraction but is more interesting for the way it channels a non-referential sense of landscape.  Sometimes this suggests a 50,000 foot Birdseye view of the earth and at others the center of a generic tempest (waves? wind? sandstorms?).  The show title and that of each of the pieces is called ‘Lames’, a French word (the artist is from Quebec) with a dual translation of either ‘blades’ or ‘violent waves breaking’.  I’ll opt for the latter given the overall nature of the imagery.

Jocelyne Alloucherie, Lames I (Untitled 5), 2007, Inkjet photograph mounted on Dibond, 87 x 56 in

Jocelyne Alloucherie, Untitled I & II (White), Each: 2007, Inkjet photograph mounted on Dibond, 64.5 x 43.5 inches

Jocelyne Alloucherie, Lames I (Untitled 4), 2007, Inkjet photograph mounted on Dibond, 87 x 56 in

All of these images are black and white inkjets mounted on board.  Given the reductive treatment, variation is found in the imagery which is often dramatic in contrast and  form but can also be sublime in the transitions. The subject matter suggests places devoid of humanity in which nature is realistically presented as supremely cold and impersonal. The content for this work goes to an awesome loneliness that cuts to soul of all that is human.