création
SAMUEL ST-AUBIN
ÉRIC FORGET
MAY 08 → OCTOBER 16 2023
This project explores the poetic and performative potential of sleep as a terrain for defining identity and reinterpreting self-knowledge. Having become the apartment of a stranger-sleeper, the exhibition space embodies the ramifications of sleep by transforming itself into the image of a fragmented narrative. Visitors are invited to explore the space and reconstruct the course of an improbable night through the objects and traces of events.
This installation contains videos from a sleep documentation of Éric Forget. His body movements were captured using an infrared camera.
Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au soutien du Conseil des arts du Canada.
Remerciements au NTE et à Isabelle Gingras.
Samuel St-Aubin has been active in the electronic arts since 2002. He has collaborated in the production of the work of several artists and collectives in Quebec. These last years, he has put forward his own creative approach. This electronics technician invests everyday objects with a new reality. He infuses his creations with a dimension that goes beyond the utilitarian realism of the object. By diverting it from its primary use, he radically changes our relationship to the object. With unequivocal precision, his works put us directly in touch with the poetry of everyday life which is discovered in the simplicity of existence.
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Mainly involved in the performing arts, Éric Forget's artistic practice takes shape through theatre, dance, circus and multimedia. After a few years of theatrical practice, he decided to undertake dance training and returned to the theater being first and foremost an actor. He has been working in these fields for thirty years. He has participated in more than one hundred and fifty shows and creations as an actor, dancer, sound designer, composer and sometimes in several of these roles at the same time.