Bassins versants (Height of Land)
Presented by Panache art actuel, in conjunction with La Virée de la cultureL'Alternative, Baie-Comeau
2016

Bassins versants exists through the confluence and layering of different perspectives on landscape and what makes it a territory. Bringing together images and excerpts of texts by different people who have walked, lived in, and exploited Quebec’s northern territories, the works recount different trajectories and histories in the landscape. Their multiplicity makes it impossible to paint a single portrait of the territory, its particularities, its inhabitants, and the activities that take place there. Taking a perspective on the idea of territory and its appropriation that is at once poetic and political, the project reflects on the ways in which we conceive of a place, whether by literally digging the earth or by making it an object of the mind.
Bassins versants was presented alongside Manon Cousin’s Toundra, a series of photographic portraits of Innu personalities. The two projects were blended together, asserting the presence of the Innu on the land.
This project was made possible with the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Many thanks to Catherine Arsenault, Richard Ferron, Panache art actuel and particularly Catherine Gagnon, Christine Dufour and Chantal Harvey.
Printing : VU
Framing : François Simard






