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The first edition of this installation, Now Melting Here, produced by the Espace culturel Louis Vuitton in Paris, was shown in 2011 for the exhibition "Elsewhere"curated by Paul Ardenne. The second edition will be shown in Montreal in 2015, co-produced by Galerie Besson (France) and Joyce Yahouda Gallery (Canada). The title, which could be translated into French as: "Fondant maintenant ici" (Melting now here), takes up the splitting of the word Nowhere into Now / Here welcoming in its middle the word Melting. In addition to the word play that refers to the title of the generic work Middle of Nowhere. This piece refers to the reality of the relationship between human activity and global warming; during the opening of the exhibition, the density of the visitors' cooked promise is proportional to the transformation of ice into water...