Émile Forest never goes out without his Nikon F3 film camera. He captures the defining moments of the present, one photograph at a time — each paired with a text. He recounts, for instance, how his friend Olivier, in Rivière-du-Loup, unwittingly finds himself in a house stripped of furniture; how Charlotte, in Montreal, overcomes a breakup; and how Fred trades his painter's studio for a paramedic's uniform. Without exploring it, Émile becomes a witness to the life pulsing around him. Through his images and stories, his discreet and singular perspective reveals the quiet transformations within our society.

Performance

The exhibition revisits the chronicles recounted on stage, arranging them as a printer would before binding — following the logic of an in-folio sheet, where a single large page holds several pages at once, positioned not in reading order, but according to how the sheet will later be folded and cut. Texts, photographs, and covers thus appear fragmented and scattered. Visitors are invited to piece them together into a narrative, just as each of us gives shape to our life from scattered events.

Exhibition