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.
