Toupies
Série ENRU
SEMINA PERCURRENT: des deux côtés de la frontière
Collaboration between Montserrat Duran Muntadas and Jean-Simon Trottier. www.trottiermuntadas.com
Mixed Media. 2015 Photo: René Rioux
A Canadian man and a Spaniard woman meet, fall in love and decide to live together. They quickly find out about the countless laws , rules, forms, paperwork and all the other administrative red tape that prevent their love from easily crossing the seemingly friendly Canadian border.
This story, our own, is the inspiration for our collaborative project entitled Semina Percurrenta, which loosely means the ''travelling seeds'' in Latin.
Why do we have borders to divide our lives? Couldn't we be more like seeds and just blow freely in the wind?
Our project consists of sculptural installations inspired by invading plants that defy borders, where the seed becomes a metaphor for freedom.
Pattes de cochon
Poisson
Fragile Folklore Of Children
Collaboration between Montserrat Duran Muntadas and Jean-Simon Trottier. www.trottiermuntadas.com
Mixed Media. 2012 Photo: René Rioux
Our work is a questioning of the speed at which things are going.
Which power is driving us to think faster than we would?
Where will we find time to have fun and share these moments of happiness?
Fragile folklore of children is a work about loss of innocence.
Collaboration between Montserrat Duran Muntadas and Jean-Simon Trottier. www.trottiermuntadas.com
Mixed Media. 2012 Photo: Maxime Cloutier
Installation created for the centenary of the Montreal Glass School's building, formerly a fire station.