A suite takes place in summertime in a 2nd floor apartment turned into a permanent gallery space (EISODE) in Montreal.

This work consists of different parts that have relative/open relations to the space and to each other:

The installation includes two looping videos—projected back-to-back onto an MDF screen placed on the floor, which has one of its sides covered with pegboard panels—a mirror, some apartment windows covered with pegboard panels, and two looping soundtracks; one plays in the space through a speaker, while the other consists of a binaural recording audio station with headphones. Light filters naturally through the perforated panels and uncovered windows.

The front video is a side traveling single shot filmed in the previous winter season. The camera is filming from the inside towards the urban train track through the sliding patio door. The film is projected wider than the screen; a part of the video appears on the wall behind, facing the patio door. 

The backside video is a recording of the urban train through the canopy from the gallery patio, which is at the same level of the track. The video is projected on the pegboard panel side of the screen.

The mirror as the exact same dimension as the apartment windows. I was fixed to form a symmetrical corner with the window that is covered with a pegboard that appears in the mirror depending on where the viewer stands—perfectly visible from the audio station’s position.

One of the two soundtracks is a field recording from right outside the gallery space: birds, kids in the football field, trains passing by the urban train track facing the gallery. The soundtrack is played back into the space through a speaker hidden in the closet, making it resonate like a subwoofer through the floor. The other audio file is a binaural site-specific recording that was recorded from the listening position that has a specific point of view in the exhibition. In this audio station with headphones, the track features sounds recorded from the space—an Italian coffee maker on the stove behind, water boiling in an electric kettle, someone climbing the stairs entering the space…. These sounds create a sensation of a constant emergence that is happening in a loop flow that coexists autonomously with the incoming train sound in the soundtrack, but and in real life too. These independent loops create a layered experience of constant oncoming events that are overlapping and intertwining with real time and space, in continuous transformation.

By linking its elements through formal and conceptual connections, the installation blends the perceiving of the space in its larger experience, creating an open loop through overlapping time zones.