le tri
en empilant tous les livres
j’ai vu sous leur poids se plier
l’herbe de ma tête
marketing écoresponsable économie
bibliographique du néant décousu
épistémologie pratique critique
d’oeuvres du XIIIe siècle drame de
Tremblay essai surréaliste
ma tête mes mains mon sac ma question mon ventre ma bouche ma culture mon préjugé mon penchant le nombre de lignes
je suis contrainte
je suis faite
de contraintes.
A small empty bookshelf faces a giant pile of diverse books. A track of overlapping recordings of my voice reading excerpts from those same books can be heard in the room.
le tri is a work on erudition, in its idealized and limited aspects. Humans write on and publish what they believe in. Humans read and base their reflections on what they read. Humans mesure the level of erudition in the weight of the pages they went through. Humans can't read everything. What knowledge will they sacrifice to the benefit of other texts? And most of all, what will motivate those choices? Using books as a tool, this installation invites anyone visiting the space to question their expectations concerning the usage of books and the noble aspect we traditionally links to them.
University of Sherbrooke Gallery, May 2018
Eastern Townships Book Fair, October 2018
