Vivace / Perennial III

Sculptural Drawing Installation in situ

The title "Vivace" , in English perennial, is derived from the plant that blooms every year. However, depending on the context, it can also describe an invasive weed. Questioning memory and transformation, the installation appropriates cultural motifs to deconstruct the signs and signifiers that shape collective memory.

The installation consists of a wallpaper pattern covering an entire wall. The patterns are applied with stencils using the ash as a pigment, and with water to adhere. During the course of the exhibition the ashes slowly dry out and eventually gravitate to piles on the floor.

In its third edition (above), the pattern consists of two mirrored and opposing leitmotifs: the Sauvastika and the Swastika. The Sauvastika is a Buddhist symbol representing luck. This symbol has been laterally (and literally) inverted by the Nazi regime.

  • Exhibition

    The Compulsion to Remember, at Museum for Curatorial Studies Bard College, New York, USA, 1994

    Materials
    • ashes

    Dimensions
    • running wall : 15 m x 3m

    • one ash motif : 11 cm x 11 cm :


Vivace / Perennial I

For its first edition in Quebec (above); within the context of their political slogan "Je me souviens", the stencil consists of a floral architectural leitmotif resembling the fleur-de-lys.

  • Solo Exhibition

    La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, Canada, 1996.

    Materials
    • ashes

    Dimensions
    • running wall : 15 m x 3 m

    • one ash motif : 11 cm x 11 cm :

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