Préface 35

To be part of the world – to inhabit our precarious contingencies.

We are made up of what we see, of the locations we inhabit, frequent or invent. While the current world contributes to convince us that all is finitude rather than open and plural potentials, the artists of the 35^th issue of LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE’s Bulletins are aware that the spaces that surround us shape us and implement our poetic thought.

While staying in Quebec City, Paolo Angelosanto inhabits the residency in a modular fashion, approaching creation as a suite of connected vessels that leading him between performance, sculpture and installation. Armando García draws the momentum to act in other forms of bewitchment : the creation residency out of his native Mexico, the crossing of new environmental, political and social climates, and new emotional territories.

To shake the completeness of our narrowly focused world, we can try like Raphaëlle de Groot, to feel the weight of the objects that make up our world, collecting artifacts and gathering a sensitive inventory. An astonishing dialogue between the material and the immaterial also crosses Jonathan Villeneuve’s resonant installation produced at LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE.

We stand before the plurality of these proposals as we would in before a multitude of floating worlds bringing us to the confines of an imaginary boundary: disorientation and geographic reliefs, improbable and intimate mapping and a variegated inventory of artifacts.

So many micro-worlds pregnant with poetry, inviting us to revisit our view on reality.