13 February-23 February
La déperdition des possibles
“Lined up side by side, suspended in their heaviness, three baths fill the space.
These baths, I will have inhabited.”
Jane
La déperdition des possibles, a sound and visual installation presented by Folie/Culture as part of Mois Multi, offers an experience in which every breath, every vibration, every whisper is an invitation to vulnerability. Three old bathtubs, salvaged and worn by time, bear the imprint of memory and experience. They are no longer simply objects: they are witnesses, receptacles for a buried word, a silent confession engraved in rust and steel.
The artist, Jane, has chosen them, inhabited them, and inscribed her words on them – words that escape from her skin, deposited as a form of purification. These words unfold, turn into murmurs, vibrate on contact with the material, like a trace that refuses to disappear. They are spoken aloud, repeated and, amplified, they make their way through the material, mingling with the soft light that illuminates the metal surfaces.
The spectator is invited to enter the enclosed space of this confession: approach the bathtubs, immerse himself in their resonant silence, and listen, almost by ear, to the fragments of text floating in the air, stretched between the intimate and the universal. The metal becomes a resonant cage, where each bath vibrates differently, each word embodied in a particular tonality, creating a discreet but intense symphony, a choir of suspended breaths.
The baths become relics of a living memory, where words, insisting and returning, seek to detach themselves from the material, to free themselves, but remain linked, inseparable from the skin, the steel, the time that shaped them. A sensory experience where the eye meets the text, and the ear becomes impregnated with the material. It’s a space where silence and sound dance together, an almost sacred place where every vibration carries the echo of lost possibilities.
La déperdition des possibles
Dates: Thursdays to Sundays
February 13 to 23, 2025
Meet the artist at the exhibition opening: February 13, 5pm to 7pm
Thursday to Saturday: 12 pm to 7 pm
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: 76 Côte de la Montagne, Quebec City. G1K 4E3
Free admission!
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This project was made possible with the support of Première Ovation and the Entente de développement culturel between the Government of Quebec and the City of Quebec.
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Photo credits: Julien Marleau
About the artist
Jane lives and works in Nionwentsïo, Québec. She holds a bachelor’s degree in visual and media arts from Université Laval and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in visual arts at the École d’art de l’Université Laval.
In 2023, she took part in the exhibition Banc d’essai at the Galerie des arts visuels (Québec City), for which she was awarded a Fonds Grant-Mathieu bursary. In May 2024, she takes part in the group exhibition Histoire de, at the École d’art, Université Laval (Québec), for which she wins the Garde-fou de Folie/Culture prize and a grant from the Louis Garneau Foundation. In summer 2024, she exhibits at Art Mûr (Montreal) for Peinture fraîche et nouvelle construction. Jane invests space in an installative way. Her aim is to create emotionally combustible places where she explores her intimacy through her own memory, using poetry as a sensitive and political vector. With the desire to create sensitive and honest experiences, the artist works from her own obsessions to inscribe herself in a performative practice putting her body in relation with objects and furniture collected in the street.
“I work from my intimacy, from my greatest vulnerabilities. Inhabit an indelicate space; attempt to create a place of rifts constructed of abandoned bodies, shreds of neglected houses; I invade the space; try to take my place in it.”
Jane
A little more about the project:
Myriam Le Lan, programming coordinator at Folie/Culture, interviewed by L’Aérospatial (February 04, 2025).