Installations

Every installation has within it’s development a unique transformative power that stems from the material and physical constraints around its creation. Via the multifaceted language of installation, it is not only what the artist has to show that counts but how he or she shows it. Working with installations is my way of searching for new proposals on the nature of art without ditching the thousands years old art conventions of representation as if they were no longer valid. Each piece is conceived with an intention to act upon a space while taking into account its material and immaterial components. The best is when one can stay on the premises of the exhibition place in order to work out an installation with the visitor in mind, taking into consideration that he or she will have simultaneously an aesthetic and a spatial experience. Storing the different focal points, the visitor will build a progressive image of the viewed objects which will pave the way for his or her own personal narrative. In this lies the phenomenological potential of installation art.
Make it or break it

Make it or break it

A mobile exhibition consisting of four cyclists on cargo bicycles forming a mini caravan with trailers fully covered with acrylic painted synthetic canvases. The cycling tour began at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CIUP), went in direction of the Jardin des plantes and ended at Le Grand Palais during the 2019 Foire internationale d’art contemporain (FIAC).

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Un vélo autour de la Cité

Un vélo autour de la Cité

April 8 to 13, 2019

An art event on a cargo bike with animation provided by myself assisted by Michela Dumas on the premisses of the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CIUP).

Cargo bicycle, flowers, 40 illustrations of wild mammals from France and Western Europe, India ink on cardboard, 60 x30 cm each.

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Babiche 1

Babiche 1

2019

Babiche (rawhide), reclining armchair, carpet, chest of drawers, coffee table, approx. 4 x3 x3 m.

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Être humain avec chien

Être humain avec chien

2017

Plexiglas cylinders, small glass bottles, dog leash and collar, natural and synthetic fillings, approx. 1,50 x2,5 x1,50 m.

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Je ne peux vivre sans toit

Je ne peux vivre sans toit

2013
Exhibition in collaboration with the Montreal based L’Itinéraire magazine.
Acrylic on canvas, moulding frames, 244 x122 cm each.

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La chambre pêche

La chambre pêche

2005
Part of Cinq et demi non chauffé (Apartment for rent without heating), an open house artistic event in an apartment of the Plateau Mont-Royal in collaboration with artist Nathalie Fontaine.
Performance of a model in a room painted in an overall peach colour with all accessories painted peach, peach coloured lighting.

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Bread and circuses

Bread and circuses

2002

Environmental installation part of the exhibition Inhabitation, organized by 11 women in an abandoned factory space on the premisses of the Château Saint-Ambroise.

Bread dough (flour, yeast, sugar, water), cement mixer, surface area approx. 5 m².

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Suture

Suture

2002
A two-day stay in a gallery with conversations with the public on the theme of the Aids pandemic
Thread, acrylic on patchworked canvas with a HIV symbol cut out and sewed back on, approx. 2,50 x2,75 m.

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Faucheuse conditionneuse

Faucheuse conditionneuse

2000
Acrylic on canvas bonded on three walls, floor and two panels, one seen through an opening and an other in the background, 0,87 x2,5 m. Space approx. 5 x3.5 x6 m.

Symposium International d’art contemporain de Baie Saint-Paul, artistic director Bernard Paquet.
The exhibition was repeated in 2001 with Paul Lussier as curator at the Centre d’art de Baie-Saint-Paul.

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Invagination

Invagination

1999

Two triptychs mounted on steel frames: styrofoam panels, 3 colour prints 244 x122 cm each; one colour print 68 x60 cm and one 32 x54 cm.

photo credit: photo Guy L’Heureux.

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Interstices

Interstices

1999

Piercing through a rectangular opening (80 x60 cm) in a wall, acrylic on canvas, air ducts, approx. 3 x4,50 m.

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Rien à vendre/Not for sale

Rien à vendre/Not for sale

1999
Exhibition consisting of four installation paintings fitted on rectangular blocs and three other forming a triptych on a two-cornered wall.
Acrylic and plaster of Paris on canvas, approx. 4 x6 x10 m.

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Dessin au poil

Dessin au poil

1998

Collaborative event with Louise Simard for the exhibition Consensuel .

Environmental drawing applied directly to the wall: liquid latex, red pastel, hair from a fur coat, space approx 300 m2 without lighting.

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Œuvre à venir

Œuvre à venir

1998
Acrylic on canvas bonded on four walls, a ceiling and a door, hanging light bulb, approx. 244 x310 x365 cm.

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Interlock

Interlock

1997

Collaborative work with Frédérick Desjardins for the Symposium d’art gigantesque in Waterloo
Nylon fabric, blower, approx. 5 x4 x3m.

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La cabine

La cabine

1997

Rectangular wooden cubicle built on site, acrylic on stapled canvas, approx 3,5 x1,53 x1,83 m.

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Confined

Confined

1996

Acrylic on two plexiglass rectangular boxes, coloured stone powders, approx.160 x92 x32 cm each.

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The wall

The wall

1996,

Acrylic on stapled canvas, 10 cm wood beams, gypsum wall, recycled nails, 280 x229 x122 cm.

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