Liens
2025
Textile installation made from repurposed and dyed pantyhose and rocks
Installation dimensions: 10 × 10 × 3 m (adjustable)
“Liens do more than unite: they generate. They do not add themselves to what already exists; they bring it into being. In this installation, suspended textiles interact with stones arranged on the ground, creating a tension between suppleness and density, movement and material memory. The work unfolds through a dialectic between fragility and permanence, between suspension and anchoring. Textile reveals without enclosing; it embraces forms in their vibration, in their capacity to be traversed. Each attachment becomes an event, an organic knot where an underground memory surfaces. This network of materials and forces forms a rhizome, a relational field traversed by co-presences, frictions, and correspondences.
Placed on the ground, the stones assert themselves as masses of memory, condensed through slowness. They establish a counterforce to the moving lightness of the textile. They embody the gravity of territory, its particular way of responding to passage. Their dense materiality introduces into the space a dilated, stratified temporality, marked by erosion, history, and waiting. They remind us that all links are tested against the inertia they encounter and the resistance they face.
From the window, the St. Lawrence River quietly enters the reading of the work. A fluid line, a liquid palimpsest, it extends beyond material boundaries and unfolds its own vocabulary of passage, shifting territory, and impermanence. Through its latent breath, it connects interior and exterior, the work and the world, here and elsewhere. Liens thus proposes a way of thinking about territory not as a perimeter, but as a porous and resonant surface, traversed by becomings, alterities, and sites in tension. It becomes a space where the relationship to the other exists without fixity: woven, unwoven, and endlessly replayed.”
Annabelle Francoeur, Curator, Musée de Rimouski
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