From left to right:

Overgrowth, 2004

Large-format slide, projector, AV stand

A slide projection of a bonsai tree is scaled to the size of a large wall. When a bonsai is arranged in a garden with similarly scaled plants it appears as a full-size tree from a distance. However, the scale of Overgrowth has nothing to do with perspective or relative size. 

Half Full, 1999

C-print, mounted on Dibond

A glass halfway filled with water could also be halfway emptied of it. Only the title of the work gives an indicator to which one it is, referring to the subjective outlook of the person assessing it.

Things, 2009

25 audio CDs, 25 CD players, amplifiers, cables, 50 speakers, wood

The tracks played are looped in their original length but emptied of all content except for the randomly appearing word “thing”. The plinth, a classical form of presentation and bearer of objects, becomes the body of resonance for the abstracted idea of a thing, in an environment where concrete things are materially absent.

Photo © Richard-Max Tremblay