Confessions d'une passante
Price:
20,00$
Type:
Artist's book
Artist(s):
Magali Baribeau-Marchand
Author(s):
Language(s):
French
Curator(s):
Specifications:
80 pages, color, 5.75 x 8.25 in, 2012
ISBN:
9782923612379

Confessions d'une passante

In the fall of 2010, during a creative residency at the Caravanserail artist-run centre, Magali Baribeau-Marchand collected a multitude of confidences on the promenade along the St. Lawrence River in Rimouski. For the occasion, she had built a mobile device on wheels: a giant birdhouse of sorts, which served as a mobile confessional for a week in November. Dozens of strangers wrote to her in exchange for a moment of contemplation in this cabin, which can accommodate only one person at a time.

For each of these confidences, she then built a birdhouse made of white ceramic tiles on which was engraved the said confidence. Then, she went to the Magdalen Islands in May 2011, at the invitation of the AdMare contemporary art centre, so that these miniature monuments, singular and fragile, could be exhibited and then adopted in exchange for a new confidence.

Magali Baribeau-Marchand

Magali Baribeau-Marchand has called this project Les Confidences; it is one of displacement, correspondence, exchange, travel and self-giving. Finally, of a profoundly human sensitivity. This book constitutes the third phase and also becomes an object bearing witness to these exchanges between specific strangers. The 107 authors of the confidences in this book are the strangers who agreed to give themselves to Magali in writing during this project. And now her drawings are intertwined with them. Finally, from deported to adopted, these confidences now take on a life of their own, a unique character. They travel to you, through you.

Latest publications

Subscribe to our newsletter

To stay informed about our calls for submissions, artists in residency and more, subscribe to our newsletter.

Support prices

Centre SAGAMIE offers artists a wide selection of materials available for inkjet, latex or laser printing.

Consult prices

Membership

Your membership subscription fee will allow you to concretely show your support for the production and dissemination of the works and practices of many contemporary artists.

Read more
Logo of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.