Landscape, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon (Canada) 2015

In this exhibition, I present an immersive and ephemeral site-specific installation created primarily from domestic and recycled materials gathered directly from the Dawson City community. Through this project, the analysis of urban morphology, the landscape, and the stories of its inhabitants are redefined by constantly playing with the concept of scale. Architecture remains my key tool for questioning the territory: it is highlighted here by a set of three unfolded cardboard boxes, painted in gold and arranged on the gallery wall. The shapes and orientations of these pieces suggest residential blueprints, housing small cutouts of human figures set against salvaged photographs, acting as a direct metaphor for the construction of local identity and memory. My work thrives on a continuous dialogue between the objective cartography of this remote, historic mining town and my own vibrant plastic subjectivity, repurposing modest everyday materials to challenge the logic of art-as-commodity. By inviting the viewer into an active wanderment through these structural forms, my physical occupation of the gallery stands as an act of resistance, transforming the space into a territory for poetic reflection on how human beings occupy, shelter, and mark their habitat.