[Fall 2025]
Double Instantanéité
by Sylvain Campeau
La Bande Vidéo, Québec
11.01.2025 — 9.02.2025
[EXCERPT]
Anyone who has visited La Bande Vidéo will have noticed that its gallery is not very big. Once viewers enter, they are right on top of the works on display. This rapid immersion can be a pitfall: the artist must connect with them right away, making sure that they’re immediately drawn in to what is being presented.
In fact, this is what Léna Mill-Reuillard set out to do with Double Instantanéité. First, viewers would note that the monitors were smaller than those she had used in the past. Here, four of them were placed on stands that put the screens at a comfortable height for viewing. Two faced each other from the ends of the room and the other two were placed in the centre, back to back. Also new: stills from a 16 mm film. The presentation and format were reminders of singular moments in the history of film and video. Black-and-white images, of precarious clarity, projected as if embedded in steles, referred back to works of the 1980s and 1990s – and even earlier, when Nam June Paik began to use such monitors within his installations.
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[ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 130 – PLANTS AND GARDENS ]
[ Complete article in digital version available here: Double Instantanéité]
Sylvain Campeau contributes to many Canadian and European magazines. The author of seven poetry collections and several essays on the visual arts, he published Écrans motiles with Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal in 2022. As a curator, he has organized some forty exhibitions.