DISPLACED LANDSCAPES I

2021

Entitled Les paysages déplacés (Displaced Landscapes), it is an in situ installation that I created during the Symposium in Baie-Saint-Paul in August 2021. For a month, I created about ten drawings every day with acrylic diluted on translucent vellum paper. The drawings were hung on 25 metal wires. It was a 3D work but composed of 2D drawings. They were suspended and they moved with the wind and the circulation of the visitors. 

For this installation, I used archives of places and landscapes transformed or disappeared for economical reasons political reasons or conflicts. Places whose inhabitants were forced to leave. Landscapes that have witnessed a displacement. I prevented myself from identifying places or counting the leaves that were hung. The loss of data being part of the concept. As time went on, I myself was no longer able to remember where each drawing corresponded to.

Photos : Francois Rivard