Vernissage Saturday January 17th, 2015 at 3 pm

Vernissage and publication launch with two texts of Mélanie Boucher et Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf on the artists artwoks

Exhibition continues until Febuary 28th, 2015

SÉBASTIEN CLICH

The Uneasy Sleep of the Operator
GALLERY I

Perched at the top of a metal staircase, a reel-to-reel plays an audio tape. But instead of carefully rewinding the tape, the mechanics of the device allows it to slip slowly downwards. At the bottom of the slope, the ribbon forms itself into arabesques that accumulate, layering on top of each other. Gradually, as they form, the first ones become undone, driven by the tape itself, which continues its course back to the recorder and completes the loop.  Nearby in real time, a camera connected to a data projector allows us to see the magnified, continual renewal of this process.

SAYEH SARFARAZ

Social Uprising
GALLERY II

« At Circa, the artist proposes a theatre of shadows stretching out over the floor of the small gallery. Sheets of plywood with laser cut-out shapes hang at various heights at the heart of the gallery, in an ordered imperfection, a functional chaos; suspended like the country caught in an impasse, a place where, while waiting for spring, it is necessary to survive all the same. The forms cut from the wood represent elements of discord: characters such as the mullahs, leaders of the religious repression, the tanks that must not to be approached, the armed soldiers, bad guys, the demonstrators, tired of hiding in order to live, the ninjas, both mysterious and dangerous, the young girls, we can imagine as princesses, and the firearms, an arsenal of ordinary rifles, proof that all can truly degenerate.»

Extract from Cuttings, Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf’s text
In Sébastien Cliche « Le sommeil trouble de l’opérateur» / Sayeh Sarfaraz « Soulèvement social »