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Stéphane Gilot

Stable

April 14-May 12, 2001

Paul Petro is pleased to present this exhibition in cooperation with Toronto's Images Festival of Independent Film and Video.

Stéphane Gilot's large-scale installation Stable incorporates video, photography, sculpture, drawing and ... beach volleyball. Gilot says he devises each of his projects like a square in a gigantic game: "My interest in children's games is linked to the way we relate to learning, since the acquisition of knowledge depends on how we have learned to learn." Pierre Landry, curator at the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, where Gilot's major installation Free Will runs until April 15, says of the works: "Focusing on the notions of space and surface, fragment and virtuality, they endeavour to create, within a given setting, a situation/fiction that confronts the visitor with various constraints and possibilities." The catalogue for Free Will is now available. A native of Belgium, Stéphane Gilot has lived and worked in Montreal since 1996.