Marie-Claire BLAIS

SHIFT DE NUIT, 2020

The project

A light that watches, another one that awakes when I walk by, the light sources posted around my studio grab hold of my space. Both fascinated by the beauty of the forms they deploy on my walls and worried about this omnipresence, I move forward in the dark. At night, the exterior enters into my interior. My windows thus became holes through which the presence of the other manifests itself. A light that watches, another one that awakes when I walk by these sources posted around my studio grab hold of my privacy. They give birth in me to a strange sentiment in which I am both fascinated by the beauty of the forms they deploy on my walls and worried by the need to watch over to which they bear witness. Is it fear alone that inhabits the night?