Le Corridor by Marie-Hélène Parant :: December 5-14, 2008 :: Opening: December 4; 6:00 pm :: iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages / Koolmijnenkaai 30, 1080 Brussels.

“Narrow passageway between two territories” … Le Corridor proposes the experience of modulating one’s perception. In this long and dark space, portrait and echo’s of the visitor’s presence combines themselves and reveal a luminous migrating reality within one self. iMAL hosts the last interactive video installation of Marie-Hélène Parant. Based on motion analysis and its pictorial modulation, the installation uses “Sketch-In”, a programming set-up developed by the artist since 2004.

Site-specific, investing a transitional space, Le Corridor has been shown in Toulouse, France and Hubei, China, with a sound intervention of Jim Bell.

Marie-Hélène Parant is a visual and new media artist based in Montréal. She has been involved with art and technology since the 80’s. Her art work deals with concepts of transformation (transition) of the body and its environment, and reflects an intense pictorial quality. Since 2004, she is developing an interactive tool based on body movement called Sketch-in and that she is using in her installations and performance work. Marie-Hélène is coordinator and founding member of SHARE MTL, an artistic community that organizes digital happenings since 2005.

She has presented her work of installation, performance and video in several international venues, in China, (809 INIAF), Europe (Club Transmediale, VidéoFormes, Traverse Vidéo), Canada (InTheMix, OFF Festival de Jazz, Société des arts technologiques), USA (Optosonic Tea, Experimental Intermedia, ISEA 2006 et ArtSpace Galery), and Morocco (Festival Art Vidéo de Casablanca).