Public Artwork
Echoes
Artwork creator(s):
Goulet, Michel
Text author(s):
LaRochelle, Luc
Installation year:
2002
Remarks on location:
Twelve chairs installed two by two along a pedestrian walk; by the concession
Description:
A dozen chairs are installed two by two along a walkway at Sunset Beach, Vancouver: the poetic writing engraved on the seats and the distinctly unique backs engage passers-by in a dialogue that echoes his or her thoughts and activities, an unexpected reconciliation.
Text of the artwork:
Une question
de temps
jamais posée
à temps
An ivory tower
echoes from before
Géographie
de l'usure
grandeur
nature
Toujours faire semblant de
Pretenses False True Story
Je me sauve
Salvation
you said
Minor dreams
weaved tight
Pousser un cri
plus loin
dans la gorge
a common story
of love and sorrow
come to an end
HERE
History:
Event: Open Spaces, Vancouver International Sculpture Project (now the Vancouver Sculpture Biennale), Vancouver, BC
Date: October 2002-October 2003
Event date(s):
2003
Artist's biography:
Michel Goulet 
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