Émilie Payeur

You are loved by everyone and everything
05.20–06.19.2021

During the summer of 2019, I spoke with my conscience. She told me her name was Monik. She was hidden under a rock, floating on a flimsy little spider web hanging over a small body of water that looked like a microscopic ocean. Monik spoke to me in English and revealed three important things about me that I will never forget. When I least expect it, she sometimes comes to visit me in the shape of a smiley face hidden within my surroundings, and often when I’m in the shower.

A mysterious ambient sound made up of low frequencies can be heard around this mini table installation. Its source is a recording captured by a microphone placed under the rock where Monik first appeared to me. The sound fills the void between the different modeling clay elements by establishing contact with the sacred.

BIO

Émilie Payeur is a multidisciplinary artist from Montreal, Canada, who is mainly active in experimental music and visual arts. Her music, often described as minimalist and sometimes harsh, is mainly based on a no-input technique and on risk-taking. In her visual work, she is interested in the traces she perceives as remnants of actions from the past and in the notion of the sacred, ritual and transcendence. Emilie has a Master’s degree in Electroacoustic Music Composition from the Université de Montréal. Her work has been performed all over the world and has received numerous awards, both in Canada and internationally.