Public Artwork
Collets de survie
Artwork creator(s):
Boyer, Gilbert
Text author(s):
Boyer, Gilbert
Installation year:
1997
Remarks on location:
The art work is installed on lamp posts.
Description:
Installation consisting of 140 stainless steel bands stamped with text and attached to lamp posts at the Faubourg des Récollets.
Text of the artwork:
Pris au piège de la routine
Pris au piège de la complaisance
Pris au piège des dogmes
In the grip of conformity
Pris au piège des conventions
Pris au piège des mots
(Other text unknown)
Artwork theme:
History, Heritage
History:
PANIQUE AU FAUBOURG is part of the reflection about industrial land sites being transformed into new cultural areas. Because they are short lived, the artists’ interventions tried to inspire the public to "appropriate" history and the site of the Faubourg des Récollets or Old Griffintown. The proposed idea for the artists was to question and interpret these sites and their history,architecture and problematic urban location through their artwork. Young up-and-coming stars or established renown artists, the artists who were selected for this project were approached for their sensibility and their ability to adapt their work to this type of artistic action. They were from Montreal, the rest of Canada or France.
Event date(s):
1997 Document(s):
Syndicate
