Airer

Curator: Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau

The video installation Airer is a multi-screen immersive proposition where the body is led to move in the exhibition space to be able to fully grasp the image that is fragmented around it. This ambitious new work by Léna Mill-Reuillard is composed of six videos projected on as many screens that broadcast their own sound space. We discover the interior of a modern architectural building where the artist has installed cameras to film a winter landscape at dusk through six large windows. As the sky darkens, the transparent surface of the glass that offered a view of the outside gradually turns into a surface reflecting the inside of the house. From the three-dimensional to the two-dimensional, from the outside to the inside, the space inside is gradually revealed. The transposition of spaces is further complicated by the presence of the artist who wanders around this atypical place engaging in different interventions. Her manipulations of elements related to photography - cameras, projectors, paper rolls, etc. - generate a tangle of frames and silhouettes that make us doubt our perceptions.

The idea of deconstructing a place from its image and then reconstructing it differently in the exhibition space, through the multiplication of screens and sound work, allows Mill-Reuillard to alter our perception of reality. She foils the gaze by relying on the potential of the off-screen. The desire to "re-map" the filmed space or to decode the visual subterfuges of the artist hypnotize. Created in the solitude of the studio, the work also explores waiting, wondering, and invites us to question the effects of our human presence in the construction of the places or landscapes that surround us.