Site-specific video installation, 2001, created for Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

Artistic design: Magali Desbazeille

“About wanting to know more, and the situations such that desire creates, about looking at those who look. What are you looking for ? Why do you think it is more interesting over there? Do you pretend to not want to know ? Are you going to tell everyone that you want to know, or will you keep it to yourself ? ”

Specificity of the gallery A wall has been added in the room in order to hang more pictures. This wall is not as hight as the ceiling. It is too short. You can guess that there is a strange space behind and something else to see.

The installation The visitor enters a dark space which seems empty. A video image is projected on this short wall. It presents someone who is trying to look at what is on the other side. He/she stands on the chair, jumps, hangs on the top of the wall, climbs over it, comes back... What is on the other side is not revealed. The shadow of the visitor is included in the video projection.
		View of the exhibition
		When a filmed character looks behind th wall, hi or /her face pops up behind the visitor

When visitors turn around, they see a second video image projected above the entrance doors of the gallery. When a filmed person manages to look over the wall, hisor her face appears behind the visitor. The face looks for something, discovers something, is surprised or disappointed. He or she seems to be looking at the audience.

Thanks: Pierre Tremblay and the students, professors and technical staff of Ryerson University.
Producers and partners: Ryerson University, AFAA, Alliance Française, French Consulate in Toronto, Le Fresnoy Studio national.