Crue

2019
BÉATRICE BOILY

This poster was part of the exhibition Mémoire de l’avenir (2021): an urban poster exhibition representing the works of established and emerging artists. 

This project was born from a desire to create connections between different generations of Quebec artists.

The exhibition, curated by Kama La Mackerel, was made up of 3 pairs, each comprising an emerging artist and an established artist. These encounters allow us to immerse ourselves in Quebec art, in our everyday lives, and to reflect on the progression of certain themes in today's artistic imagination.             

From November to December 2021, these posters were exhibited in the streets of Montréal · Tiohtià:ke on Publicité Sauvage’s palisades.

Crue (2019) is an intervention that took place over the course of four weeks in which the artist extracted a ton of raw clay from a river by hand before returning it to the riverbed. The images from this intervention act as both a documentation of a process and a finished photographic work. This approach allows the artist to explore the tension between what is concrete, the impermanence of sculptural manipulations and the finality of documentation. In Crue, the clay becomes much more than a simple sculptural material: it becomes an autonomous body, which carries narratives, which transforms in relation to the artist's body, and which regains a transformed autonomy upon return to the riverbed.

Poster dimensions: 24 × 36”. Paper: matte, 189 g/m², acid-free.
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