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A Point in Time: Two Strangers Kissing

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Public spaces have been broken down into those dominated by populare culture (streets), by mass culture (malls), by high culture (museums), by corporate culture (offices buildings), and by official culture (government structures ). - Lucy Lippard

I am interested in the in between spaces, in the way that constructed urban spaces leave cracks for endless possibilities. Site specific video installation. Glasgow, Scotland, 2006

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Melodrama

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We must be consistently aware of how space can be made to hide consequences from us, how relations of power and discipline are inscribed into the apparently innocent spatiality of social life. - Edward Soja

Architecture affects the way we organize our lives, the way we move through space, and how we organize our sociality. Video 3min06sec. Presented at CCA Glasgow, by Videographe and galerie Verticale for Gated Communities, EICV, Montreal and F.E.V.E. Marseille. 2006

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Video title Three

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Parc

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Take, for instance, the ways in which urban spaces differ day and night, weekdays and weekends, the ways they are peopled at different times, reflecting working lives and power relations. -Lucy Lippard

This video looks at how people reveal the potential of an urban space through the way they manifest themselves in it, through it, creating patterns and rythmns. A parc represents also an in-between space, a romantic idea of nature in the city, a place for spending and wasting time. Video animation, 5 min, 2006

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15h03: ils parlent du temps qu’il fait

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To the ordinary man, to a common hero, an ubiquitous character, walking in countless thousands on the streets. -Michel de Certeau

Poetic view on how urban furniture offers a pause in a landscape, redefines a rythmn, and proposes a possibility for contemplation or social interactions. Shot in Centre Sud Neighbourhood in Montreal. Two Digital prints, 30"x30" each and a looped video. 2007

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The Social Club : Le Club Social

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Video installation, sound, digital prints. Le club social I :: The Social Club I intend to look at interior communal social spaces through the construction of identity and symbols. www.thebackgallery.com -2007

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La Fiancée

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For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere.- Walter Benjamin

This video is about time and space; using time and space, breaking time and space, confronting the imposed speed of the city. Video, 30 minutes looped. Presented at Art Mur, Montreal - 2007

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Maisonneuve

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An intoxication comes over the man who walks long and aimlessly through the streets. With each step, the walk takes on greater momentum; ever weaker grow the temptations of shops, of bistros, of smiling women, ever more irresistible the magnetism of the next street corner, of a distant mass of foliage, of a street name.
- Walter Benjamin.

Video animation. 2005

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Extension : Construction

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The society that reshapes its entire surroundings has evolved its own special technique for molding its own territory, which constitutes the material underpinning for all the facets of this project. Urbanism city planning is capitalism’s method for taking over the natural and human environment. Following its logical development toward total domination, capitalism now can and must refashion the totality of space into its own particular decor. - Guy Debord

A poetic view about our endless needs to constantly transform, modify, rebuild the landscape as part of an economy. The presention on the vitrine window relates the video to the urban constructions.
Looped video installation. 2008

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Entre-Temps / Meanwhile

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This piece is meant to gently disrupts the normal pace, interfering with a landscape already existing, already constructed, aknowledging the place it sits in. A dialogue between people, nature and architecture. The constructed parc images and fluidity of the medium are juxtaposed to the solidy and permanence of the architecture.

Site specific video installation at Parisian Laundry, Montreal. Night projection in four of the large windows. The full lenght of the 4 videos is 40 minutes. 2008

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Observatoire

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City parks are also important for the role they played and continue to play in urbanization. They are part of the rise of modern institutions-the successive attempts to gain control over the social and physical consequences of urbanization in the context of industrial capitalism. Their past and potential use in the processes of creating social, psychological, and political order, of planning and controlling land use, and of shaping civic form and beauty make them important today.
- Galen Cranz

This installation recreated a sense of being out in a constructed landscape; in constructed nature. It was then putting an emphasis on the urban planning strategies for a potential peaceful and contemplative place. Immersive sound and video multiprojections. 2007

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De passage

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Produced as part of the residency program L’envers de l’endroit au 3e Imperial of Granby (QC), a green screen was installed in a public park to recruit pedestrians and film their wanderings. Through a manipulation of the images captured, this project reveals a peculiar choreography featuring pedestrians. The resulting video is projected between dusk and dawn, on windows of the main street of downtown Granby.Video installation. 3e Imperial, Granby, QC - 2010

Video installation. 3e Impérial, Granby, QC - 2010

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