Unbuilding the City
Price:
20,00$
Type:
Artist's book
Artist(s):
Ève Breton-Roy & Marie-Hélène Leblanc
Author(s):
Marie-Hélène Leblanc
Language(s):
French and English
Curator(s):
Specifications:
70 pages, 6.25 x 6.25 in, 2009
ISBN:
9782923612096

Unbuilding the City

The artists produced this artists' book as part of a publishing residency at Centre SAGAMIE in Alma, Quebec. The content of this book, made up of fragments of texts and drawings, presents both the city, one of its inhabitants and their respective deconstruction.

Unbuilding the City also means contributing to the slow deconstruction of a city made of paper buildings. This book, as a singular object, is part of a whole made of stacked copies recreating the buildings of a city. It becomes a stratum of buildings and an extract from the lives of its inhabitants. By purchasing a book, the reader will have to remove a copy from this model of the city and thus contribute to its deconstruction.

Ève Breton-Roy & Marie-Hélène Leblanc

Ève Breton-Roy lives and works in L'Anse-Saint-Jean where she runs Terrain vague inc. which is both a publishing house for artists' books and a craft binding workshop. She holds a master's degree in visual arts from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, where she questioned the book as an object, its formal characteristics as a materialization of thought. In October 2007, she presented "Campagne de salissage", her first solo exhibition at the artist-run centre Espace Virtuel in Chicoutimi.

Marie-Hélène Leblanc lives and works in Gatineau where she is the artistic director of the Daïmõn artist-run centre, a production centre for photography, video and new media. She is interested in architecture, temporary housing, the near and the far. She has participated as a curator and/or artist in a dozen exhibitions in Quebec and France.

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