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Charles-Étienne Brochu (Quebec City, Quebec),
“King of the Mountain”, 2020
A monumental house of cards with colourful
illustrations stands before the Parliament Building.
The work illustrates the precarious nature of social
equilibrium and represents the duality of our
precious institutions, which are at once fragile and
robust. Much like the fabric of Quebec society, a
house of cards requires great care and constant
vigilance. All it takes is a gust of wind or one abrupt
move to topple everything we have worked so hard
to build.
Presented in partnership with the Assemblée
nationale du Québec.

Yann Farley (Sainte-Justine, Québec), “Station A”, 2021
“Station A” is a payment station that blends into the urban
landscape, with its familiar interface and pictograms, along
with the tantalizing promise of giving you something for
free. But all attempts to operate the machine are fraught.
The instructions seem increasingly absurd until we reaslise
the nature of the twisted trail the artist has set out for us.
This electroacoustic interactive sculpture pokes fun at our
ambiguous relationship with the automated equipment we now
interact with everywhere we go.

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