MEMORY IS A WEAPON
Photographie / In situ installation / Participatory work / 2012



Folklorized for its maritime culture and often reduced to a post card, the Gaspé is today heir to a tired coastline whose seaports are closing one by one. With the exhibition Memory is a Weapon, Maryse Goudreau unveils a world that, in striving to modernize its image, has turned its back on its maritime heritage. In light of this situation, Goudreau here aims to strengthen complex relationships threatened by time and memory. This project was created during the period where the Canadian government was closing laboratories responsible for monitoring long-term effects of chemical pollution in waterways. This also coincided with the abandon of wharves in many coastal communities, and the encroachment of the factory ship on small-scale fisheries. As such, Memory is a Weapon hopes to be a response to the violence carried out against the sea, whose own future often appears dark.








MEMORY IS A WEAPON

Exposition / Centre d’artistes Vaste et Vague, Carleton-sur-Mer / 2013









Charge no. 2 (Plaque)
impression au jet d’encre / 2011
divers formats, édition de 5

Charge no. 2, (Brûlage)
impression au jet d’encre / 2011-2012
91,5 x 111 cm, édition de 5

Charge no. 2 (Le nœud)
impression au jet d’encre / 2011
divers formats, édition de 5




 
  
CHARGE (NO.2)
Ephemeral intervention / Photography / Flags / 2010
Carleton-sur-Mer wharf, Gaspésie, Québec

An antique photograph bearing witness to sea traffic of the past undergoes the coming and going of car tires, thus progressively wearing away the image on the ground. Maryse Goudreau created this action with the goal of poetically fuelling the resistance around the preservation of the local wharf, where the project was realized.

Presenter : Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie. Documentation : Louis Couturier.