TRUCK STOP

Truck Stop

Discover this ephemeral passage of public art outstretched along the highway 20, between Quebec and Montreal. Visit the 15 original works created by visual artists and collectives in unusual places, from June 17th to August 9th 2017.

Truck Stop is the result of an exceptional collaboration between two art organisations and communities, the CLARK Center (Montreal) and l’OEil de Poisson (Quebec). This major art event aims to disseminate contemporary art in unusual places to have us appreciate and question our relationship with the area. What is more emblematic of this gathering of public art than the legendary highway 20, which links the metropolis and Capitale-Nationale of Quebec?

Some of the artworks present a critical look at built heritage sites along the highway, which compels us discover the infrastructure that has been either been neglected, destroyed, or doomed to be modernised. Others propose a poetic reappropriation of the land, of nature, and of reality, while some are interested in the aesthetic potential of certain places and spaces that have gone undetected.

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Artists and works which will be presented

Gisele Amantea will arrange a series of verses in French, Engish, and Abenaki on a succession of road signs in the Sainte-Madeleine, Lac-à-la-Truite, Sainte-Anne-du-Sault, and Villeroy truck stops.

Camille Bernard-Gravel Proposes an installation composed of sparkling garlands on the Bréton Laurier grounds at Laurier Station, visible from the highway 20.

Patrick Bérubé will paste an enormous “Play” button on the barn on the Roland Plante farm in Saint-Janvier-de-Joly, creating confusion between reality and fiction.

Nicolas Fleming is erecting a construction barrier, suggesting the renovation of a part of the Antiquité Michel Prince business Sainte-Eulalie.

Rosalie D. Gagné will occupy the roof of the Relais Routier Petit in Saint-Hélène-de-Bagot with an enormous inflatable work.

Gagnon-Forest readapts the history of l’Extra-Terrasse restaurant, today demolished, brought into fruition by the inventor Jean Saint-Germain at the Saint-Nazaire-d’Acton stop.

Steven Girard will create a series of video performances from his travels between Montreal and Quebec, to be viewed on truck-stop.ca.

Mathieu Latulippe imagines the dystpia of a completely disproportionate truck stop at the Halte des Hurons.

L’orchestre d’hommes-orchestres is set to park their convoy at Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil and will perform continuously from July 28th to the 1st of August in the Four Seasons hotel complex parking lot.

Organ Mood is projecting a work visible at night on the side of a silo in Sainte-Eulalie (206th km on highway 20).

Ariane Plante will accompany drivers traveling along the 20 through an audio exploration which can be downloaded from truck-stop.ca.

Nelly-Ève Rajotte presents to us the artwork, Blanc, August 19th on the site of the former Drummondville drive-in.

Alain-Martin Richard will perform during the afternoons from June 21st to 27th as well as on the 30th at the Villeroy stop. The artist uses documentation from these performances to create an artwork that will be installed on the grounds of the stop from the 4th of July onward.

Douglas Scholes will walk from the Centre CLARK towards l’OEil de Poisson over 15 days during the construction holidays, by way of secondary roads.He will then be returned to Montreal by an art carrier.

Joshua Schwebel will intervene with two bill boards along the highway.