pourrait être fait

title : pourrait être fait

year: 2015
location: baie-saint-paul, québec
duration: one month
supported by: symposium international d’art contemporain de baie-saint-paul – murmures du quotidien
curator: marie perrault

project blog: https://pourraitetrefait.wordpress.com

pourrait être fait is a project which investigates (very briefly, just over the course of one month) the concerns of those who live in the regions of québec. taking the weekly newspaper “le charlevoisien” as my main source of information i chose a headline or a quote from the newspaper to then transcribe this text onto unprimed linen using acrylic paint. i was primarily interested in discovering how the current governmental cuts (both provincial and federal) were impacting the life of those who live and work in the regions.

language, as performed –and as performing the reader, through difficulty of deciphering the text and as well as through hierarchical placement (whether the text is from the québec charter of rights and freedoms, a newspaper headline, or quote, whether the text is handwritten on a postcard, or handwritten on graph paper, or painted onto cardboard or painted onto linen or printed as a one-page in the newspaper) was also explored.

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year: 2015
location: le charlevoisien, baie-saint-paul, québec

coming full circle to reinsert the quote originally lifted from the charlevoisien newspaper back into the newspaper, the acrylic on linen imaged above reads: “sylvain tremblay avance que “la réforme de l’assurance-emploi a crée un mouvement d’exode important dans l’est du pays.””the blog address presented below the image was to give readers access to context and information about the concerns of,

municipalités dévitalisées

une municipalité dévitalisée désigne une communauté rurale dont la population décline et prend le l’âge, où l’investissement est faible et ou l’offre de services locale ne se renouvelle pas. faute d’emploi, cette situation entraîne, par le fait meme, d’exode des jeunes.

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