CV120 - Michel Boulanger, Dans ces rangs de lignes pressées — Daniel Roy
Ciel variable 120 - Figures of Affirmation (Summer 2022)
Exhibitions (Individual article, digital version)
Michel Boulanger, Dans ces rangs de lignes pressées
Occurrence, espace d’art et d’essai contemporains, Montréal
From January 14 to February 19 2022
— Daniel Roy
The world of agriculture, key to Michel Boulanger’s practice, is described from the point of view of technologies and transformation of the landscape in his animated video Dans ces rangs de lignes pressées. As Daniel Roy notes, Boulanger “portrays the anxieties and turmoil of a farm-machinery operator,” illustrating “the loss of human contact with nature – nature whose exploitation is subjected to the logic of yields and productivity.” Roy briefly describes each of the scenes in the video, “which offers views of a grand, but disquieting, beauty,” and observes that it both leads us to reflect on our imprisonment in a productivist system and encourages us to “find a way to step out of line.”
Details
Language : English & French
Digital Version : PDF, 0.6 Mb
Bibliographical Notice
Michel Boulanger, “Dans ces rangs de lignes pressées” in Ciel variable, No. 120, Montreal, 2022, p. 87-88.