Marie-Suzanne Desilet
CHARCOAL + TURBO
October 22–November 20, 2010

As part of BookFest Windsor 2010, Artcite presents Marie-Suzanne Desilets’ “CHARCOAL + TURBO”, a mixed media installation based on her journals over a two year period.
Funny, poignant, ribald and intimate, the excerpts both suggest and question subject and narrative. Installation graphic and scenographic design is presented in collaboration with Denis Rioux.

“I’m interested in human relations and in multiple codes of behaviors. I plan and set-up events for perturb day-to-day life. In my projects imaginary and reality, fantasy and the ordinary are confronted. Unexpected situations happen to transform and improve perception and preconception. Because I’m interested in including art in day-to-day life, many of my works are interventions in public spaces. But in the last few years, I have been working on a project that is about how I can include art in my own life.
This approach used to reveal how interpretation is predominant in our experiences, and the place it takes in the search of meaning for each and every moment of life. It finally brought interrogation on the role of memory, related to reality and truth. Throughout Charcoal + Turbo, I explored the idea of manipulating the memory flow of daily experiences. A rabbit and a dildo, nicknamed Charcoal and Turbo, were the pretext a story that slips between fantasy and reality, questioning decencies, shadiness and taboo. Throughout the project, I experienced encounters, I kept a journal, and I accumulated photographs, objects, and drawings each and every day. ”