The exhibition, presented by FIAMS, focuses on L’Arche de la fuite dans l’imaginaire, a monumental sculpture created in the early 2000s by pataphysician Florent Veilleux (1941-2023). A number of curiosity cabinets complete the exhibition, providing an overview of Veilleux’s colossal lifetime of work, including luminokinetic installations and absurd, derisory and utopian machines.<\/p>\n
Veilleux’s artistic installations are essentially made from recycled industrial and everyday objects, which he transforms, robotizes and sets in paradoxical situations. In his works, scraps become contemporary 20th-century automatons, a kind of postmodern sculptural exquisite corpse, totally deconstructed.<\/p>\n
His monumental work is a mechanically metamorphosed synthesis of the products that society has consumed and discarded; the 20th century told through the objects that lived through it.<\/p>\n
Florent Veilleux’s absurd machines capture the imagination of all and sundry in a colorful language where the desire to amaze is omnipresent. His so-called “folk art” is accessible, wildly unbridled and imaginative, while maintaining a critical, non-indulgent view of the technology from which it largely springs.<\/p>\n
The exhibition is as interesting historically as it is socially and environmentally.<\/p>\n
“Through their constant scientific humor, my machines are designed to mystify the adult, and to catalyze the child’s spirit of observation and reflection, imagination and ensuing creativity” -Florent Veilleux<\/p>\n
*A posthumous tribute will be paid to the artist on Saturday, July 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Place Nikitoutagan. On this occasion, the objects and mechanisms of the monumental work L’Arche de la fuite dans l’imaginaire will be activated to bring the installation to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10844,"template":"","class_list":["post-11889","cpt-programmation","type-cpt-programmation","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","programmation-compagnie-florent-veilleux-en","programmation-categorie-pour-tous-pour-tous-en","programmation-lieu-pavillon-nikitoutagan-en","programmation-pays-canada-quebec-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiams.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt-programmation\/11889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiams.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt-programmation"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiams.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt-programmation"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiams.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiams.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}