Photographic installation at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal for Toronto Nuit Blanche 2016. Part of the exhibition Facing the Sky by curator Louise Déry
The way people look at the sky has evolved with the increasing performance of the technologies used. People no longer look at the sky in the same way. Planetariums are lit up by new digital projections. Some of them have been emptied from the inside, leaving their dome like a suspended shell over a deserted hall. Planetarium/Terminal is the meeting point of two places built during the same years, at the end of the sixties and beginning of the seventies, during the concrete building boom, now in a transition period between modernity and a new era. The sky, visible as a representation inside one, is directly accessible in the other.
Once visitors pass the Terminal turnstile, they will enter an open space, which brings them to the ferries. An irregular concrete hexagon skirts the passageway. On its surface will be 10 panoramic photographs taken of the interior of the abandoned Montreal Planetarium. The interior dome is lit, photographed and recomposed. The audience will have the experience of visiting an open-air planetarium, looking at the sky overhead framed by the architecture and surrounded by the photographs of the artist.
Toronto Nuit Blanche 2016
