Myriam Lambert (Qc)

Pipeline suggests an impact of climate change: the ice melting. Through her works, Myriam Lambert shapes visual, sound and literary poems revolving around identity-related places of memory and the values ​​associated with them. From her meetings with Genevans during a residency, she noted that Lake Geneva, a freshwater reserve of the ice age, is a place of memory that has marked the collective identity of Geneva. As well its Jet-d’Eau (Water jet), which she discovered on arrival to Switzerland, is also a real icon. This took her vision to the image of an oil well, which has just broken out. This jet has become her visual base, during several shootings around Lake Geneva: an oil jet.

At both ends of the globe, the ice melts at an insane speed because of global warming. The two videos that constitute the installation, are a sensitive and critical view of the global network, in search of energy and a certain “excess”. Pipeline disrupts and questions, in the hopes of creating awareness, as minimal as it is, in order to encourage action.

Artwork done during an artist residency at the Centre Utopiana in Geneva.
Broadcast as part of the exchange project “E-critures” conducted by Transcultures and Productions Rhizome (Quebec), with the support of the Wallonia-Brussels / Quebec Standing Joint Committee, the Quebec Ministry of International Relations and Wallonia-Brussels International.