La Vie commune

Marie-Claude Langevin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:01:09 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Lavaillante, Renée

Artwork creator(s):

Lavaillante, Renée

Text author(s):

Lavaillante, Renée

Text author(s):

Lavaillante, Renée

Installation year:

1989

Remarks on location:

The drawings were located on two floors of the station, in the corridors between the docks.

Artwork description

Description:

Seven traffic signs with plexiglas covers and black and white drawings. These represented outlined plots of cultivated land that the artist had traced during a trip to Crete. The phrase appeared on each drawing.

Text of the artwork:

Les gens vont et viennent tout le jour entre les parcelles

Text theme:

Life

Artwork theme:

The land

History

History:

Métro d’Art Event date: 1989-1990

Event date(s):

1990

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

The Métro d'art event was organized by Galerie La Centrale (at that time, La Galerie Powerhouse), in association with the Société des transports de la ville de Montréal, and included the works of twelve female artists in various metro stations around Montreal: Raymonde Jodoin (Crémazie Station), Michèle Assal and Christina Horeau (Jean-Talon Station), Marie Fraser (Laurier Station), Khadejha McCall and Loly Darcel (Sherbrooke Station), Kitty Scott and Laurel Woodcock (Lucien-L'Allier Station), Cecile Baird and Josée Pellerin (Lionel-Groulx Station), Carole Beaulieu and Renée Lavaillante (Snowdon Station).

Artist's biography:

Renée Lavaillante

Document(s):

L’espace et ses…régisseurs

Métro d’art. Galerie souterraine

Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Métro d’Art

La Vie commune