Guy Giard
The Family Show II: Family Fil(L)Ings
November 29–December 22, 1991

Recently returned from a study period in Amsterdam, Guy Giard will be actively involved with each community which engages him as participating artist and through this interaction he hopes to regain a sense of his Canadian identity. The results of these interactions will be represented in the installation contained in the gallery.

The Family Show series was presented in different Canadian cities in 1991-92: Regina, Windsor, Peterborough, and Montreal. The subject of this series was the family as a place of socialization, inseparable from our identity. The installations were like mirrors, reflections where each person could identify, rediscover himself in relation to his or her own family. For this, Giard recreated different central points of family life such as supper, tv, the bedroom… that he transformed while activating one of their specific elements. These installations were created in situ, combining the subject of the family with the specificities of each city / exhibition point. For Family Fil(L)ings, Giard lived in this community for two months, created this work, & also presented lectures to the gallery and the local university.