Œuvre d'art public

Echoes

Michel Goulet, Echoes, 2002
Michel Goulet, Echoes, 2002
Michel Goulet, Echoes, 2002
Michel Goulet, Echoes, 2002
Location:
Sunset Beach Walkway, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Artwork creator(s): 
Goulet, Michel
Text author(s): 
LaRochelle, Luc
Installation year: 
2002
Remarks on location: 

Twelve chairs installed two by two along a pedestrian walk; by the concession

Description: 

A dozen chairs are installed two by two along a walkway at Sunset Beach, Vancouver: the poetic writing engraved on the seats and the distinctly unique backs engage passers-by in a dialogue that echoes his or her thoughts and activities, an unexpected reconciliation.

Text of the artwork: 

Une question
de temps
jamais posée
à temps

An ivory tower
echoes from before

Géographie
de l'usure
grandeur
nature

Toujours faire semblant de

Pretenses False True Story

Je me sauve
Salvation
you said

Minor dreams
weaved tight

Pousser un cri
plus loin
dans la gorge

a common story
of love and sorrow
come to an end
HERE

History: 

Event: Open Spaces, Vancouver International Sculpture Project (now the Vancouver Sculpture Biennale), Vancouver, BC

Date: October 2002-October 2003

Event date(s): 
2003