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Galleries

The photographic series presents 12 double-sided prints on flags arranged in parallel diptychs. Each "pair" of banners shows a maritime view of Le Havre, France, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec. The images float in the North Atlantic wind that bathes the two American and European shores, at the time of the shooting, as well as at the time of the exhibition…

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Videos

The video series presents in a beach hut on the pier facing the sea through a viewport, two videos: Lovers journey et Porthole eyes.

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Lovers Journey

In the summer of 1944, André Breton and Elisa Claro, at the time young lovers, took a trip to the Gaspé and made a stop at Percé. Seventy-one years later, on a foggy day, the rock, become a ghost, is invisible, but poetry, the queen of images according to Laurent Mulot, lets see and hear the poet’s song…
Voices: Nicola Will & Yvon Montoya
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Porthole Eyes

The porthole, the ideal eye for contemplating the sea, its infiniteness, its coast and its ports, offers a view that is far-reaching and simultaneously restricted, its glass window revealing immensity while reflecting the person looking through. The landscapes parade here around 49° and 52° north, from one shore to the other; the in-between is lost in the foam: it floats precisely…in the middle of Nowhere.

Texts from Nicolas Mavrikakis, art critic, art historian, Montréal Canada.