Public Artwork
Those Little Things
_0/index.jpg "Gilbert Boyer,Those Little Things, 2003. © Marc André Brouillette")
_0/index.jpg "Gilbert Boyer,Those Little Things, 2003. © Marc André Brouillette")
_0/index.jpg "Gilbert Boyer,Those Little Things, 2003. © Marc André Brouillette")
_0/index.jpg "Gilbert Boyer,Those Little Things, 2003. © Marc André Brouillette")
_0/index.jpg "Gilbert Boyer,Those Little Things, 2003. © Marc André Brouillette")
_0/index.jpg "Gilbert Boyer,Those Little Things, 2003. © Marc André Brouillette")
_0/index.jpg "Gilbert Boyer,Those Little Things, 2003. © Marc André Brouillette")
_0/index.jpg "Gilbert Boyer,Those Little Things, 2003. © Marc André Brouillette")
Location:
Bathurst Jewish Community Centre, 4588 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M2R 1W6, Canada
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Artwork creator(s):
Boyer, Gilbert
Text author(s):
Boyer, Gilbert
Installation year:
2003 Description:
Set of rectangular stones laid on the ground. Texts appear in several languages.
Text of the artwork:
feel in myself that I am capable of everything. Never mind my age. You know my age? No I’m not going to tell you. rules, that you have to follow in life I don’t think it would have been good if I had done all those THINGS
[Chinese] I believe have been tragedies in life but who doesn’t have tragedies in life? That’s what life is all about. So you know there are things that happen
[Yiddish] but I have a story, everybody has… would just like them to be more aware of OODLES THINGS They are no different than a lot of other children. That’s the way it is. river to pick out stones like this (gestures) all kinds of stones, take them from one place to the other. They didn’t need them [Farsi] art not traveling, walking with us from one place to another with no reason at all
[Russian] but it was like a second language, they didn’t want us to learn that, I don’t know-it was really a miracle like to see people laugh. You know maybe the snow gives me hope of a brighter future
[Hebrew] and these stories are so important to me those little THINGS-it may sound silly but it means so much, it really does. Cause he-no-he knew I had a hard life didn’t want to let you go, how come? difficult to understand for somebody who didn’t go through all these things
[Arabic] the difference between a desert and another one is the people
Text theme:
Personal memory
History:
Installation in the field of the Bathurst Jewish Community Center on November 9, 2003. Recorded interviews, maintained by the artist, with various individuals
Event date(s):
2003
Artist's biography:
Gilbert Boyer
Owner(s):
Gilbert Boyer Document(s):
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