Les voix
(A Practical Study of Anthropomorphism)
2023, Place Ville Marie.
Multimedia installation with large language model, performance, interactions with the public.
Interpreters: Melania
Maria Balmaceda Venegas, Xavier Goulet, Léa-Kenza Laurent, Julie Le Tallec,
Luca Max, Mikaël Morin, Fa Pedneault, Justine Prévost, Alexis Tisseur.
Photos by Mike Patten / Avery Suzuki / Mike Grenier
[Project website]
[Book]
Esquisses d’un inventaire
2023, Galerie Bradley Ertaskiran.
Installation, drawings, paintings, scultpures.
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Pluralism.xyz
2019-2022.
Series of surveys. Paper and web questionnaires, website.
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Between 2019 and 2022, I designed surveys that I presented as part of several exhibitions. The surveys invited visitors to directly express their views on existential issues that were addressed, though less explicitly, by the works.
My objectives were to question the methods associated with data collection and interpretation, and to make visible the ambiguous relationship between quantitative and qualitative paradigms. The world is increasingly measured, represented, and governed by numbers derived from data collection. However, in many cases, the most important issues — the environment, the future of humanity, the meaning of life, etc. — are fundamentally qualitative in nature, whose real meaning, always contextual, multidimensional, and subjective, cannot be transposed into numbers.
I therefore wanted to explore and visualize the gap between what we try to measure and what it is possible to express through data. The surveys were a way to experiment with formal structures to address difficult questions, and to blur the line between the quantitative and the qualitative.
Eyes Adjusting Slowly
2021,
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Architectural installation, paintings, survey.
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[See survey results]
Positions
2020,
Galerie Bradley Ertaskiran.
Architectural installation, paintings, questionnaire, audio loop, rock.
[Listen to audio work]
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281 visitors answered the existential questionnaire.
[View results here]
Sobey Art Award Exhibition
2019-2020, Art Gallery of Alberta
Architectural installation, paintings, questionnaire, audio loop.
[More information here]
941 visitors answered the existential questionnaire.
[View results here]
Built-In
2018-2019, NAVEL
Modular space dividers, ongoing series of events.
[More information here]
Built-In was a series of collaborative events as well as a modular structure that was designed and built to become part of NAVEL and its program of presentations, screenings, lectures, performances and other forms of public engagement. The project is, in essence, relational. It is a site-specific design proposition: an ensemble of space dividers that bring attention to the relations between individual elements and collectivity, virtual and physical space, minds and bodies. The objective was to establish an ongoing collaboration between artists, academics and others who are interested in using the structure as a platform to discuss the organization of living beings in physical space — past, present, and possible futures. For more information about the individual events, please consult NAVEL’s archives [here].