Public Artwork
Indices fragmentés
Artwork creator(s):
Neumark, Devora
Text author(s):
Neumark, Devora
Installation year:
1992
Remarks on location:
The posters were placed in various locations (indoors and outdoors). The tombstones were installed in various green spaces in the city.
- In Dorchester Square, at the corner of René-Levesque Blvd. West and Peel Street
- On Prince Arthur Street, between Saint-Laurent Blvd. and Saint-Denis Street
- At the corner of Guy Street and de Maisonneuve Blvd.
- At Place Jacques-Cartier, in Old Montreal
- Between Cherrier and Saint-Denis Streets
- On Mont-Royal
- Near Beaver Hall
Description:
The work consists of posters and tombstones. 3,500 posters were put up by a company specializing in indoor and outdoor billposting. The posters feature text on the left and, on the right, a detail from a photograph of a tombstone. Ten tombstones were installed in various green spaces throughout the city. The inscriptions in Hebrew were partially sandblasted away so as to leave only traces. Tombstones recall the memory of an individual, it presents information of a private nature in a public place, it "weaves a link between private and public spaces."
Text of the artwork:
INDICES FRAGMENTÉS
(les vestiges)
débris
restes
chargés des traits VISIBLES de l’âge
commandant l’espace identité personnelle
échangée par des signes de plus grande portée
que le seul souvenir d’une personne affirmant vos
MÉMOIRES
signaler la continuité
des repères solidifient (défient l’aliénation) ? fabrications et manipulations
de son histoire
héritage modes du tissu social
qui préservent la culture de la fragmentation pesez bien les significations le passé que nous créons
naît de notre seule présence d’autres – futurs – décideront de notre passé les surfaces estompées nient
les traces dans la pierre en état d’érosion
qu’est-ce que l’effacement révèle ?
Text theme:
History
Artwork theme:
Forgotten History
History:
The intervention was carried out from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the intention of creating an ephemeral work of art. The 3,500 posters were visible for about 3 days. The tombstones disappeared over a period of four years. Two have remained in place. Devora Neumark was the organizer of the event. The artist used recovered tombstones that were meant to mark a burial but that were rejected by the client because of textual errors.
Event : Indices fragmentés, intervention en deux parties : pierres commémoratives, affiches
Event date(s):
1992
Artist's biography:
Devora Neumark. Document(s):
Syndicate
