The work consists of two paintings with irregular contours, featuring a multi-coloured abstract composition. According to the artist, they evoke the poetry of Émile Nelligan. The titles of each painti
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Four colourful feathers are embedded into large glass panels which are hung by stainless steel rods that represent the feathers' stalk. Motifs are then superimposed, evoking the college's different co
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Inspired by the former function of the building, a fire station, the artist created a system of ladders that unfold into a spiral, evoking the fenestration. Wings are added to these, flight devices as
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The artwork is shaped as a frieze panel and installed along three of the lobby's walls. The black frieze panel is pierced with words in French, English, Hebrew and Yiddish. The cut-out first layer ope
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In the hall, a wing hangs diagonally from the ceiling to the floor. It is made of 360 aluminium feathers, a reference to the angels that used to be very present in religious sculpture. A dialogue is c
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The work is composed of rectangular red clay plates, which are arranged to form a wavy relief on a blue-painted wall. Seen from afar, the art work as a whole evokes a bird taking flight.
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Mural painted on a concrete wall and a triptych consisting of a painting with bas-reliefs. The mural consists of horizontal rectangles, blue wavy forms and stylized fishes that swim along the wall. Th
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Sculpture consisting of two structures hanging from six cables. Placed one in front of the other, the structures are vertically intertwined, forming a spiral. Each is made of eight parallelograms, six
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The work consists of three panels. The central panel represents an arched bridge with three turtles crossing it. Under it, the tail of a fish or sea mammal can be seen. This tail rises out of an oval
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This massive cycle of five stained-glass works is composed of more than 1,200 pieces of glass. The first panel depicts the river and the island's forest, along with an inhabitant of the village of Hoc
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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 ea
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The work is integrated into the floor of the great hall, which opens up onto five floors topped by a sky dome. The ensemble features a cross made of freshwater limestone, which recalls the cross on th
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The structure of the floors lean against a huge slanted wall. Three steel shapes run the length of the four-floor high slanted wall, forming ledges and peaks. These shapes have been cut and assembled,
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/index.jpg "Michèle Lapointe, Je te prête ma plume, 2007. © René Rioux, 2007")
