The Collectif des Créateurs Canadiens (CCC) unveiled FICTIONS, an immersive virtual experience showcasing new and exclusive works by a group of eight Canadian designers.
Photo credit: © Alex Lesage
The exhibition features both established and up-and-coming designers including: Atelier Zébulon Perron, Claste Collection, David Umemoto, Lambert & Fils, Loïc Bard, Pascale Girardin, SSSVLL and Yannick Pouliot. The exhibition is the CCC’s inaugural initiative and collaboration with contemporary curator, design specialist, and architect Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte.
An atypical love letter to the northern city, FICTIONS is a freeform exploration of shape, materiality, and function. Set in a nondescript post-apocalyptic environment in the heart of Montreal, the thirteen pieces await with poise for the viewer’s gaze. Familiar in their appearance, these fictions of mutated furniture blur the lines of design and art, and question who the user might be, what purpose they are meant to inhabit.
Photo credit: © Alex Lesage
“Fictions takes visitors on an intriguing and mysterious journey, featuring eight designers and artists who pay tribute to the fabric of Montreal. How did these elegant and majestic pieces end up here, in this forbidden space?
Rich in textures of light and sound, the exhibition is discovered slowly, almost secretively – but its legacy, and its Montreal spirit, remain with the viewer long after they have left the premises,” says Laurence Gélinas, Executive Director of CCC.
For the duration of one week, viewers are invited to visit www.cccollective.org/fictions where they will be prompted to immerse themselves into the exhibition by choosing one of four different camera angles: floor view, bird’s eye, detail, overall view.
Photo credit: © Alex Lesage
This voyeuristic setting, reminiscent of 70s sci-fi and surveillance cameras, will marry imagery and video footage by Pierre-Alexandre Guay and Director of Photography Alex Lesage (Anniversary Magazine) to an original soundscape by composer Philippe Brault.
Viewers are strongly encouraged to periodically return to the exhibition as the lighting changes throughout the day – a discrete signifier of the passing of time – and how it livens up the inanimate objects.
As a companion to FICTIONS, writer Daniel Canty imagined “A Line of Light,” a short essay and user manual to what he calls Montreality: that common denominator or “palpable energy” that radiates through the city’s enrapturing “general stylistic disorder,” furthered here by the CCC’s installation.
