Programming

Yves Gendreau (Granby) installed a construction sign without any inscription on a vacant lot in the Montreal business center. With the help of three "fake workers" recruited via a classified ad, parasitic elements (scaffolding, ropes, pulleys, trestles, construction stakes, etc...) gradually invaded the site. This last one quickly became a disturbing element in the regulated daily life of the usual passers-by. When they asked Gendreau about the nature of this construction, he asked them to fill out a survey asking what they wanted to see erected on the site. In the gallery space, Gendreau set up his contractor's office and showroom where visitors could consult plans, specifications, models, surveys and sketches, an almost obsessive documentation of this "evolving construction site."