Cité lacustre 1991

Galerie de l’Université du Québec à Montréal, Quebec, Canada — Molded pigmented paper pulp, black sand — Lateral lighting — Dimensions of the installation: H. 60 to 120 cm x L. 570 x W. 420 cm.

(…) “these works have their origin in the imagination of the artist, they bear witness to a very clear desire to break their hold on reality by their evocative forms of the vestiges of the past. Thus these boxes or boxes hidden from their memories, profiles of the tombs projecting their hierarchical shadows, these objects of a difficult at first, of an obsessive plasticity, invade little by little the field of consciousness, releasing a strange emotion, an ineffable solid plunging its roots into a mysterious infinity…” (…)

© Michel Lépine 1992, excerpt from French text: Le passé en tant que matériau et l’objet, mémoire fragmentée, Cahiers des arts visuels, n° 28, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.