Programming

This installation project outside the walls of DARE-DARE pursues an approach linked to the appropriation of disused industrial sites as metaphorical elements, conducive to a questioning of certain symbols of our contemporary environment.

This work of sculpture intends to use the three-dimensional image of an airship as a symbol of the aspirations of a modernity. This in order to put this image in parallel with the highly symbolic character of a disused factory. Built in monumental dimensions, this simulacrum of an airship will be arranged in such a way as to occupy almost all the available space of its location.

The theoretical context in which Corbeil situates his approach is that of the environmental stakes that it is possible to identify in our current society, in light of an awareness of a set of social, cultural and economic values.

Originally from Abitibi Témiscamingue, Daniel Corbeil has been practicing sculpture for eight years. His work has been presented in several galleries and exhibition centers in Quebec, Canada and abroad. In the summer of 1998, he will present an installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark.