"My First House"
Oboro, Montreal, Canada 2010 - Est-Nord-Est, St. Jean Port Joli,Quebec 2010
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MATERIAL: Burned down architectural structure, burned objects, cat, chair, tools, etc. pre-recorded and live video,interactive component, sound.
DESCRIPTION:
CONCEPT: My First House is an interactive video installation and consists of a burned down architectural structure and video projections with an interactive component. The structure was disassembled on the bank of St. Laurence River in Saint Jean Port Joli, Quebec in Spring 2010 and transported into the gallery space. The structure is re-build within the interior of the gallery and becomes part of multiple video projection re-constructing the landscape and memories of time, which has passed. Part of the exhibition are additional items such as tools, furniture and other sculpture objects which were part of the house interior once used as sculpture shop. Viewer is invited to walk throughout the installation space and the house structure to observe his/her own projected image and shadows which appear to be part of projected water landscape which turns the space from flickering water landscape graduating from cold blue to burning red. The installation contemplates ideas of "re-birth" by the ambiguity of the fire/water element.