Quote:
"In Reason Over Passion pans across the Canadian landscape are frequently interrupted to include such iconography as the Canadian flag, the national anthem, Pierre Trudeau's words 'reason over passion' (of which 537 permutations of the phrase are superimposed over the landscape images) as well as Trudeau himself. [Joyce] Wieland does not fetishize Trudeau, offering a paeon of praise; she is putting him on for his Enlightenment-like over-valuation of reason. Through re-photography she literally breaks down Trudeau's face; the graininess of the image underlines the gaps in his facade—he appears as an icon. [...]"
-- Kass Banning

Source:
Banning, Kass. "The mummification of Mommy: Joyce Wieland as the AGO's first living other." C Magazine, no. 13, 1987. (p. 33)