Réalité fragmentée
Born of a collaboration between Émilie Payeur and Guillaume Vallée, this project explores the fragmentation of audiovisual reality through a hybrid installation that serves as an instrument, a screening space, and a projection surface all at once. The installation becomes an active environment where image and sound diffract, overlap, and reassemble in real time, blurring the boundaries between perception, matter, and representation. Inspired by holographic principles, this work conceives of each fragment as the bearer of a latent whole, where information flows nonlinearly between visual and sonic layers. Resonances — acoustic, luminous, and symbolic — play a central role, activating subtle connections among the elements.
Émilie Payeur
Interdisciplinary artist Émilie Payeur has developed a practice centered on installation art, while also working as an experimental musician and composer. She holds a master’s degree in electroacoustic composition from the Université de Montréal, where she studied under Robert Normandeau. Her work has been presented at venues and festivals in Canada and internationally, notably at OBORO, Titanik (Finland), Shiro Oni (Japan), as well as at FIMAV, Akousma, and SIGHT+SOUND. It has been recognized with the Canada Council for the Arts’ Robert Fleming Award, a new media creation grant from OBORO, and awards from the Bourges International Music Competition. Active in the music scene, she collaborates with several groups and ensembles, including Giri Kedaton and Ensemble SuperMusique, and her music is released on labels in Canada and Europe. She lives and works in Montreal.
Guillaume Vallée
Experimental filmmaker and video artist Guillaume Vallée graduated from Concordia University with a degree in cinema animation and an MFA in Studio Arts—Film Production. He works with film (Super 8, 16mm, 35mm), analog video (VHS, Hi8), and stereoscopic video (red/cyan anaglyph). His experimental films and videos, distributed by Vidéographe, La Distributrice de films, Light Cone, and Winnipeg Film Group, have been screened internationally at numerous festivals, including IFFR (Netherlands), ExIS (South Korea), the International Festival of Films on Art (Canada), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Canada), International Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg (Germany), Regards (Canada), Crossroads (United States), Oodaaq (France), and Animatou (Switzerland). Vallée is currently completing his newest short film, The holoRazutis of Saturna, an experimental documentary about the eclectic multimedia artist Al Razutis.