Parachute Road

Parachute Road
2015

performance-video, installation for 3 channels or 1 channel
video loop : 10 min 07 s
produced during a residency-exhibition at La Bande Vidéo, Quebec city (Quebec, Canada)
camera : Ricardo Savard
soundtrack : Jocelyn Robert (excerpt from soundtrack “La ville, la nuit”)

2024

  • Transparent Foretellings, retrospective exhibition, curators : Marie J. Jean et Claudine Roger, Musée régional de Rimouski, Rimouski (Quebec, Canada).

2023

  • Transparent Foretellings, retrospective exhibition, curators : Marie J. Jean et Claudine Roger, VOX, centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal (Quebec, Canada).

2018

  • Trajectory of the senses, Biennale internationale de sculpture contemporaine, Centre d’exposition Raymond-Lasnier, Trois-Rivières (Quebec, Canada).

2016

  • Galerie Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto (Ontario, Canada).
  • Gallery Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Calgary (Alberta, Canada).

2015

  • La route parachute, La Bande Vidéo, during the celebration of the twenty years of Coopérative Méduse, Quebec city (Quebec, Canada)

By many listening from the recent audio work from Jocelyn Robert, the new draft Diane Landry was born. A picture-story is formed in the mind of the artist which led to the creation of The Parachute Road. This is the first time the artist uses a time-based audio work as a guide line for creating a work videographic.

This video proposal is an amalgam of private performances and animation models of sculptures in which the artist evolves through multiple actions. The meeting of different spaces generates an "almost" narration with repetitive rhythm. So we are quickly drawn into an absurd universe, an illogical road, a path that is not going anywhere ...