Festival Art Souterrain
Exhibition place
Activities
Le navire qui mène au ciel, 2019
Interactive video instillation: swing, animation, sound (4 min 12 sec)
The interactive video installation, Le navire qui mène au ciel, explores a liminal aerial space through the play of a swingset. The public is invited to swing in order to activate the artwork. At the whim of their momentum, the video comes to life, and transports them somewhere between earth and sky, to improbable places and abstract landscapes animated by colorful geometric shapes.
The soundscape, which envelops the experience, is modulated in real time, propelled by the swinging motion: rhythms, textures, and colors overlap with the ambient sounds of the traversed plains, creating a synesthetic effect that blends sound, images, and movement.
Through the cohabitation of oscillation and stillness, technology and handcrafted aesthetics, visual abstraction and field recordings, the work evokes joyful play in the journey between reality and imagination.
Biography
Originally from Île d’Orléans, Fannie Giguère lives and works in Quebec City. She is a professional artist and art teacher. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts and a master’s degree in Pedagogy and Visual Arts from the University of Laval. This artist and videographer primarily presents her work as installations, while also exploring sound, animation, documentaries, and public art. She is a recipient of grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and Première Ovation. Her works have been featured in numerous group exhibitions in Quebec City, Rimouski, Montreal, as well as in France and Morocco. Her two short films have been screened at festivals in Canada, the United States, Morocco, and China.