A two-screen installation in which I take up the changing function of certain modern buildings, their power of suggestion and their obsolescence. Montreal’s racetrack is a site I document and the source of several of my works.
The installation Amphithéâtre (Amphitheatre) takes shape around the tension created between a horse filmed in close-up in its stall, the last day of the races and cyclical tracking shots in the deserted stands on the other side of the track. Underlying the forthcoming catastrophic energy is the imminence of a mammoth building about to fall and the ambiguity surrounding the precarious presence of the animal.
The soundtrack, made out of on-site recordings, becomes a part of the montage. The arrangement of screens in the exhibition space invites viewers to circulate in a way which enables them to watch the screens either individually or simultaneously.
