Artwork

ELLE MARCHE blue mountain

Performance-installation at Oboro Gallery, Montreal, November-December 2012, with durational performance (4.5 hours)

This exhibition was curated by Caroline Loncol Daigneault and her direct engagement as active observer played a primary role in the project. The piece explored relations between nature and narrative, at its centre a structure inspired by Da Messina's painting of St. Jerome in his study. I moved between this study-herbarium and a table displaying a collection of found objects. A key part of the performance was the theme of economics and value. I made currency out of wood, slices of potato, wool bundles. There was a "slow auction" in which I described the origins of each object, attempting to sell everything from my collection. This absurdity was also expressed through the theme of time, labeling objects (as well as myself) according to the categories of PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE.

Materials: wooden structure, table containing collection of mixed media objects

Photographers: Paul Litherland, Anne Parisien, Vida Simon