City of St. Boniface
Video (10 minutes)

City of St. Boniface is a reflection, as much figurative as literal, of the artist’s life as a Francophone woman living and working in an Anglophone world. Using the flowing waters of the Red and Assiniboine rivers as her point of departure, the artist assimilates these two divergent worlds and shares what she holds dearest from both. The result is a series of natural images juxtaposed against isolated and little-known locales in St. Boniface. And among those contrasting images, like the flow of the waves, we discover human activity that is sometimes chaotic, irreverent and amusing, but that draws us back irresistibly to a state of contemplation. It is in those moments that the intimate gaze of the subject finds us, takes us by the hand and directs us back to our inner selves.

Click the image above to view a series of still images of the video.

To view an excerpt of the video, click the Windows or Quicktime icon below.

Windows Media 1.8 MB Quicktime 2.2 MB