Untitled (window), 1990

Steel, black and white photographs, acrylic and fluorescent lamps,

55.5 x 290 x 87 cm (sculpture),
292.5 x 86.5 cm (stained glass).

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Collection

Here is an ecological reflection not so much on the universe-matter as on the universe-knowledge, the world as humans try to understand it. It is a study of our approach to the universe, of speeches, two modes of understanding of the world: the empirical and scientific approach and the magical or religious one. From this juxtaposition springs a feeling of helplessness, a sense of our limitations.
At another level, this metallic mass emerging from the ground introduces another dimension, temporality, which again attracts us to the universe-matter.

This mass, suggesting a bomb shell or an upside down hull, and harbouring a threat, a tragedy, literally appears as the inside of the stain-glass window, at once the backside of things, of speeches, and the inside, what it contains.

The universe still escapes us. Ultimately, it remains metaphysical for us. It escapes our understanding, yet not our power. We can transform and destroy it without understanding it.