DÉCONTRACTANT GÉNÉRAL

The Ontarian artist Steve DeBruyn travels the country from east to west, sideways and in zig-zags picking up site scraps and found materials at each stop that give shape to the work that he designs at each of his host location: art centres and galleries. On this road trip without a fixed destination, the artist offers works that revive popular culture, in what is colourful, patched, alive and moving. This is an art of doing with next to nothing. To make his large-scale sculptural spaces, Steve deBruyn employs techniques and materials usually associated with the field of construction and renovation and overturns them. : usually invisible components, such as insulating substances and partitions, appear in the foreground. In this perspective of recovery, the artist uses not only materials extracted from eco-centres and abandoned objects, but he also recovers elements of his own home to give them new forms. This same principle of recovery and diversion seems to guide his aesthetic choices-If attempts and recuperation policies are prized by some and banned by others, similar to Nuage Vert, the exhibition Décontractant général raises the question of the management of the refuse that we produce and generate and the possible actions that we can introduce or induce.