Exit - Artwork - Joceline Chabot

During the exhibition Un Liasion transatlantique/Transatlantik (A Transatlantic Connection) organized to

highlight the 15th anniversary of an exchange program between artists of Quebec and Basel, three galleries presented this work about exclusion.

At Circa, a soundproofed shelter was built between two already existing walls that increase the hanging surface for works. Insulated with felt and found fabric, this small, closed space enabled visitors to lie down and feel cut off from the gallery

At Skol, a secret shelter gave occupants the possibility of watching what was going on in the gallery by looking through small openings made in one of the walls. From this space created by a double partition, they could also see a narrow corridor and the building’s structural aspect. This sort of niche, constructed with salvaged materials, was lit up with a television screen. The half-open door enabled one to see part of the building’s skeleton where there are cables for the elevator that serves the nine floors.

The completely closed and inaccessible space at Occurrence let one see, through small vertical openings in the translucent paper that covered the two glass doors, a phrase written in white letters “nowhere where I live or die” from a poem by Aragon.