Festival Art Souterrain
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HISTOIRES INVISIBLES – VARIATIONS, 2023
Multi-channel installation: vidéo, son, impression (30 min)
HISTOIRES INVISIBLES – VARIATIONS is an immersive and sensorial space where each spectator is invited to navigate through a multiplicity of temporalities to compose their own narratives. By combining multichannel devices, videos, soundscapes and large-format photography, the work offers a constellation of interpretative and narrative trajectories and the possibility to reconstruct them ad infinitum.
The notion of borders, as a zone of friction, interaction or opposition, is at the heart of the installation. Fragments of lives intertwine, brush against and respond to each other, weaving a poetic web through places, movements and memory. Between slowness, acceleration, and suspension, materials and landscapes overlap and transform, echoing the natural cycles of life. HISTOIRES INVISIBLES – VARIATIONS interrogates the space that humans occupy in a changing world and evokes the traces, both ephemeral and indelible, that they leave in their journeys across the territory.
Biography
Through his installations, Jean-François Côté explores in a conceptual, poetic and critical manner notions related to image, sound, narrative and the environment in a context of digital and ecological transition. Faced with the omnipresence of mass media, he transforms images into delicate spaces to inhabit.
The work of Jean-François Côté has been presented in numerous exhibitions in Canada, Mexico, Chile, Croatia, Greece and China, among others. Based in Quebec City, he is a professor at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières (UQTR), co-founder of the Laboratoire intersectoriel en art, technologie et environnement “SYMBIOSE”, and he also works in the permanent public art space.
Special thanks to:
With the support of Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Coproduction Recto Verso, La chambre blanche, SPIRA, UQTR
Catherine Baril, Mélanie Bédard, Carol-Ann Belzil Normand, Catherine Benoit, Jasmin Bureau, Jacques Bussières, Michelle Drapeau, Béatrice Larochelle, Seungah Lee, Philippe Ouellet, Normand Petit, Ariane Plante, Vincent Roy, Christian Rivard, Claudine Thériault, François Vallée, Richard Thibault and his team of firefighters at the Caserne 10 of Ville de St-Marc-Des-Carrières, la Municipalité de St-Jean-de-l’Île-d’Orléans.