Le désordre des jours (2005) is a multimedia installation presented from September 1st to 14th, 2005, at space 306 of the Belgo Building. This exhibition was my MFA thesis work at Concordia University. It has been created with the collaboration of Carlo Verduccio (sound environment) and Patricia Furtado (programming).
In the multimedia installation Le désordre des jours, photographs, videos and sounds transport the viewer on an unexpected journey. The installation uses a computer program, which selects at random the length of time and sequence of the images and sound. The viewer is presented an ever-changing work with no beginning or end. A poetic fiction comes out of this experience where the memory of the viewer is juxtaposed to the reality of the installation.
The beauty of the imperfections, of fleeting moments and of the fragmentary. Banal scenes from daily life take a whole other aspect and evoke universal notions of life, death and time. An essential element of this work resides in the powers of evocation and association of images, in what emerges from their proximity and their echoes on the mind.
Randomness reinvents continuously the path and rhythm of the work and offers an almost unlimited grouping of images. In addition, because a computer chooses the images at random, this installation suggests a more fundamental questioning on authorship and finality in visual arts.
