Les travailleurs
This documentary is made up of 110 photographs taken by 45 workers in their workspaces. Representing various sectors of employment in Quebec (according to 1999 data), including professions not indexed in these statistics — housewife, prostitute, unemployed person etc. —, these images show places devoid of human presence. A transfer of authorship that allowed access to locations closed to strangers. Here we don't have portraits of faces but portraits of gazes.
Exhibitions:
2005 Arbeitshaus Einatmen, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresde, Germany
2003 Lieux anthropiques, Casa Vallarta, Guadalajara
2002 La vie en temps réel/Mode ralenti, VOX gallery, Montreal
Les travailleurs, 2002
Poster, 35 x 46 cm, 2,000 copies
Yves Lemelin, afficheur, de la série Les travailleurs, 2002
Chromogenic print, 32 x 44 cm
Serge Doucet, cardiologue, de la série Les travailleurs, 2002
Chromogenic print, 22 x 30 cm
Jeannine et Marcel Léonard, fermière, de la série Les travailleurs, 2002
Chromogenic print, 22 x 30 cm
Conrad Tremblay, pompier, de la série Les travailleurs, 2002
Chromogenic print, 32 x 44 cm
Annick, escorte, de la série Les travailleurs, 2002
Chromogenic print, 22 x 30 cm
Les travailleurs, 2002
Chromogenic print, variable dimensions
Installation view, L'Espace VOX, Montreal