Cube blanc is a simple attempt to reconnect with the other. The other as distinct from one’s self, on the other side, the other one always hears but can never reach. Gabriel Plante’s work, half way between theatre and visual art, reveals a decontextualized territory that clears away everything that stands in between two individuals in a setting where space and geometry are one.

Text and stage director: Gabriel Plante
Assistant and lighting designer: Vincent de Repentigny
Set designer: Joel Desmarais
Stage manager and costumes: Cloé Alain-Gendreau
Cast: Jocelyn Pelletier and Hubert Lemire
Manipulation: Radisson Labelle and Hugues Callières

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE – Gabriel Plante
Gabriel Plante (°1987, Montréal, Canada) is a conceptual artist, mainly working through performances and installations. With a subtle minimalistic approach, Plante tries to grasp language itself, then transforms it into art, into ornaments. Inherent to the phenomenon, many ambiguities and indistinctnesses arise.

His works focus on the inability of communication which is used to visualize reality, the attempt of dialogue, the dissonance between form and content and the dysfunctions of language. In short, the lack of clear references are key elements in his work.

On ne peut qu’être captivé par le dialogue que les corps entretiennent entre eux, mais surtout avec ce cube sans cesse reconfiguré, sans cesse désaxé, cette forme qui les avale, les repousse ou les surplombe.
(revue Esse n° 80 – Christian Saint-Pierre)

La maestria avec laquelle le metteur en scène orchestre cette riche géométrie laisse augurer le meilleur.
(revue Esse n° 80 – Christian Saint-Pierre)

L’interprétation fléchissante et réussie d’Hubert Lemire rappelle la cage d’escalier d’Escher, alors que celle de Jocelyn Pelletier rejoint le grésillement et l’éclatement des ampoules électriques en survoltage.
(Le Devoir – Sylvie Nicolas)

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