The Sleepers

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I work in the realm of Architecture, Technical Design and Visual Arts. Along with my work as an architect, I have been involved as a consultant on large-scale gallery and public installations and art restoration.

As an artist, I explore the potential aspects of design and its poetic significance in ordinary life. My installations and art projects aim at reconciling poetics and ethics in design as a discipline.

Projects to date delve in the reuse, the recomposition or the reconstitution of a particular material into a specific time and place.
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Art Souterrain, Montréal, 2013.

The Sleepers (2013)

‘The Sleepers’ is made from used material. The clothes that you see are actual clothes from people that sleep on the street; they have been traded for new ones to make this piece. The intention behind this act is to make a sculpture that builds-up a landmark on our memory of the intricate space of those endless journeys of the homeless. Only objects of this sort are capable of achieving both a testimonial and a poetic quality for remembrance.
Most of my work as an artist delves on the reconstitution of a particular material into a specific time and place. In the case of ‘The Sleepers’, I want to create a boundary, like a wall in a house. But this wall is nothing but a boundary of doubt of an uncertainty of a presence. I would strive to say that public space is full of such types of indeterminate boundaries, like the spaces of warmth and seclusion that serve to the comfort of sleep of the homeless.