De la liberté qui point (Liberty Pointing)

Some parts of No Forget and a few remnants

Normand Forget, my late stepfather, often repeated these words to me: “I am still alive.” Alive, as full of desires—the desire to live, to eat, to drink, to get drunk, to share, to laugh, to make love, to enjoy, and to give pleasure. What remains of him is inanimate, leaving us only memory and traces of his passage. He leaves a rich heritage, full of objects made by his hands or collected over time.
Some pieces of what he collected were offered to me. These objects, statuettes, and material remnants are part of a reserve that Normand accumulated with the eventual intention of transforming them into something else. The collection nourished his process.
Receiving these objects made sense to me beyond the idea of inheritance; it offers a reminder. Living is an opportunity. Being free is not guaranteed, it is a condition.
The assemblages I propose are a tribute to the man and artist my stepfather was. They propose compositions where furniture elements coexist with transformed found objects. The appropriation of Normand’s objects carries a particular quality where my intervention adds to gestures already made by the previous owner. There is a creation that passes through the addition of objects and gestures from two contributors.
Interested in the artificial and the deceptive, I attempt to reflect on the absurdity that fills our daily lives. I try to breathe life into objects. To stage them…