du seuil à la cime

du seuil à la cime is representative of Jacynthe Carrier’s research, which merges the living and the image in performative scenes that perceive the collective body as a means of connecting to and reflecting on our different ways of relating to others and to the environment. This multidisciplinary video, sound, and photography installation poetically observes the seasonal transformations of a specific site, a small vacant hill near a highway. In the course of frequent visits from spring to winter, the site is gradually revealed as the day breaks at dawn. During the time Carrier spends with others on the mound, she activates various collective performances that survey, highlight, and physically enter into dialogue with the elements forming the rich ecosystem of this abundant site, presiding between the concrete and the cars.

Taking an attentive approach, this enveloping and sensorial installation focuses on the gestures of waking up and the various presences of those who inhabit and visit the hill and its surroundings. The resulting work is situated in the tension between the site’s actual hostility and other possible stories about a small terrain that is both abandoned and sovereign.