Possible Lives

2020

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In December 2019 when visiting a flea-market in Bruxelles, I found a suitcase filled with pictures, papers, records, postcards, receipts and other traces of a deceased person. They were up for the grabs in a corner of the market. Abandoned. I brought some of these traces to Montreal, wondering why this suitcase ended up there, imagining who this person had been. It confronted me with my own mortality. Where do our traces go after we die?
The items are exposed with a desk, paper and a video.
In the video, I portray three possible lives, inspired by items I found.
Three persons are telling us in an intimate setting their imagined life story.
I invite the visitors of the gallery to add possible life stories, using the electric typewriter and putting the writings on the wall.
Possible lives was exposed in Galerie AVE, Montreal 2020.
Video, pictures: Steven Smith Simard