In parallel with the exhibition En places et lieux at DRAC, Lucie Rocher presents a site-specific photographic installation at the Bibliothèque publique de Drummondville. Mise en pièces is a series of photograms made with a defective hard drive, which was dismantled and used as an object in each composition.
In 2017, the artist suffered a major breakdown on her hard disk—compromising an upcoming exhibition at the Maison de la culture Jeanine-Sutto. In a gesture of incomprehension, she dismantled the drive in order to analyze how it worked—since it’s an integral part of her daily life and essential to archiving her practice. Each screw, plastic element and label inside the disc were dismantled and laid down on photosensitive paper in the darkroom to create some fifty unique compositions. The installation presented at the public library reveals nine of these large-format compositions (in positive and negative form)—which were digitized and re-photographed for the occasion. “A library is first and foremost a place for preserving and archiving knowledge, and it seemed to me that this fully echoed the subject of this series of photograms”, explains Lucie Rocher of her installation.
