This book could be called a polymorphic book or a long letter to a friend on the path of the fluid cycles of experience.
It is a work-book gathering a series of poetic writings called propositions, which are short reflections related to moments of artistic practice in the inhabited solitude of the house and in meetings with participants of the Domus project. These writings are in dialogue with a graphic work elaborated from moments of observation made in the different spaces of the house-studio and spontaneous gestures.
The writing has a particular posture, halfway between conceptual images related to the works and performative instructions. They are also poetic instructions that speak to the finer attention paid to the environments of body, speech and mind, and how they enter into communication, resonance, in our human relationships and in our deep connections with elements and phenomena.
Massimo Guerrera
Massimo Guerrera uses different mediums such as : drawing, writing, photography, installation and performance to work on the fertile space of the encounter and its inner displacements. Between the shared presence and solitude of the studio where collections of signs are manifested in installations and practices. It is an approach that deals with the sensitive oscillations of our relationships. It is an attentive work on the creative process, presence and the different states of mind that develop there. He has been exhibiting his work since 1989 in Canada and abroad. His solo exhibitions include Stade d'épuration synthétique at Galerie Occurrence in 1991, La Cantine at the Dare-Dare centre in 1997 and in the Montreal public space since 1995. The Darboral project begun in 2000 at the Biennale de Montréal was presented as part of the Festival de la nouvelle danse in 2001, at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in 2002 and at the Darling Foundry in 2008, as well as at the National Gallery of Canada in 2008-2009. Massimo Guerrera is the recipient of the 2001 Ozias-Leduc Prize, awarded by the Fondation Émile-Nelligan, as well as the 2008 Louis Comptois Prize awarded by the City of Montreal.
