Nowhere/Everywhere, 2009 Double video projection : 2 x (3,20 m x 1,80 m) HDV PAL 16:9, color, sound, 2 x 16 min. Exhibition view at centre d'art passerelle, Brest, 2010. Photo : DR
People carry small cardboard houses across the landscape, following a trajectory that takes them from Brittany (the artist's home) westward: through the hills of Arrée, then along the north coast and across the Atlantic to the Quebec coast before continuing onwards through the « woods » on the northern border between Quebec and Labrador. The journey was imagined as cutting this straight line on the map of the world and thus displacing the « centre of the world ».
Assailed on all sides, and in all ways, small peace have I and my chimney. Were it not for the baggage, we would together pack up and remove from the country. Excerpt from the short story of Herman Melville : I and my Chimney, 1956.
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With the participation of Vénec Stabbles, Stéphane Belle Ngangué, Marie-Michèle Lucas, Michèle Waquant, and the support of Conseil des Arts et des Lettres de Québec and Conseil Général du Finistère.
