The grass is always greener on the other side

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?

Description

The visitor enters a dark space which seems empty. A video image is projected on a short wall (A wall has been added in the room in order to hang more pictures. This wall is not as hight as the ceiling).
It presents people who are trying to look at what is on the other side. They stand on the chair, jump, hang on the top of the wall, climb over it, come back…
What is on the other side is not revealed.

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.