Public Artwork
Étendre nos ailes tout autour du nid
Location:
Centre mère-enfant, CHUL , 2705 boulevard Laurier, Québec, QC, Canada
See map: Google Maps
Artwork creator(s):
Riverin, Agnès
Text author(s):
Riverin, Agnès
Installation year:
2003
Remarks on location:
The artwork is spread out over three floors
Description:
On the ground floor, round and square pictorial artworks as well as a few birds constitute the signage to the next floors.
Level 1:
The square shape represents the idea of home. Pictorial works show luminous clouds, an ethereal sky, reflections on water or the sea. Aluminium squares featuring an engraved poem are also inlcuded and a pictorial work runs along a glass box that houses a bird's nest.
Level 2:
Round paintings and aluminium circles featuring an engraved poem run along the corridors.
Text of the artwork:
Marcher
en lisière du ciel
jusqu'à ce point précis
où tout bascule
S'accrocher à la pointe d'une étoile
Écouter les chants aériens
qui d'instinct
s'installent alentour
Avec seulement nos bras
se métamorphoser
le coeur au bout des yeux
apprendre à voler
Retenir le souffle
et repeindre nos souvenirs
d'un peu de lumière
Dans l'espace tranquille
reconnaître la joie
sous la poussière fine
refaire les gestes familiers
aimer au-delà de tout
Loin sous la voûte nuageuse
investir le ciel
rompre au silence quotidien
laisser là les éclats
Espérer
Et
lorsque
le ciel déborde
à la limite
de nos peurs
malgré
tout ce qui crie
sans renoncer
étendre
nos ailes
tout autour du nid
Text theme:
Hope, family, courage and love
Artwork theme:
Surpassing oneself, freedom, inner warmth, family, hope, family spirit, courage and love, travel
Note(s):
- "The poem introduces the space of dream and, gradually, the reader turns into a bird": Agnès Riverin.
- The artist had the mandate of creating a journey in the corridors of the first and second floors. The artwork also had to include signage. The square was chosen for the first floor and the circle, for the second floor.
Conversation with the artist, July 2009
Artist's biography:
Agnès Riverin 
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