Programming

Guy Giard exhibits the last part of a series of travelling exhibitions across Canada. Le Chaud de Famille IV (continuation and end) invites us to an intimate reflection on the family. This installation proposes the path of a reconstructed interior. In a quasi-darkness, where the sense of smell and hearing are solicited, the spectator attends the dialogue of familiar objects. A part of the veil is lifted to send us back an image of our own "family portrait".

Le Chaud de Famille IV is the latest in a series of traveling exhibitions that have toured across Canada. Through Le Chaud de Famille IV, Guy Giard suggests an intimate reflection on the family. The installation evolves through the different communities and social strata visited. Through perceptual improvisation, the artist attempts to create the fabric of his presentation from within the environment. Le Chaud de Famille IV explores the emotional and existential fabric of the family, a contextual beacon... The family, the crucible, the polar core of society, a system of alienation, repression and repression, but also of fulfillment and social accomplishment. A binding force for our individuality, it shapes us, composes us all, but is taboo, embarrassing, silent... Using an expressive form tinged with humor and irony to counterbalance the density of the subject, Guy Giard lifts the veil and holds up a mirror to our own "family portrait". He leaves us with his vision of this closed universe, as yet little analyzed in a secular manner.