Doublings is an extension of the project La doublure presented at the Galerie de l’UQAM in 2012. This book offers a new interpretation of the installation, with the inclusion of previously unpublished documents such as a performance protocol and excerpts from the performers’ journal. In addition to photographs and diagrams, the book contains the entire book YOU (in this story), which was part of the installation. Finally, author Charles Guilbert has written a detailed, personal analysis in an essay that takes the form of two visits to the installation.
Sébastien Cliche is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Montréal. He questions forms of narrative and the place the viewer can take in their construction. For the last twenty years, he has been producing installations, photographs and text, video and sound-based art. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, notably at Centre d’art contemporain de Meymac (France, 2008), l’Œil de poisson (Québec, 2010), Momenta Art (New York, 2013), Circa (Montreal, 2015) as well as in established festivals such as MUTEK (Montréal, 2005 and 2010). As a curator, he produced the exhibition The Hearing Eye (Montréal, Ottawa and Québec, 2007-2008). In 2012, he received the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman fellowship in contemporary art, In 2014, he has published Doulbings a book about the project La doublure presented at Gallerie de l’UQAM (2012).
