The artwork “Vis-à-vis / Face to Face” created during the artist-in-residence “Contextualisations” coordinated by Réseau Nord-Ouest and financed by Heritage Canada and Canada Council for the Arts was presented in the hall of the Yukon Art Centre in Whitehorse in November 2018. The concept was to photograph Whitehorse’s buildings from inside the opposite buildings through their windows which delimited a restricted creation space.

The condition in which the artist decided to photograph the Whitehorse downtown’s buildings in a limited environment defined by herself when presenting the project and experimented during the project finally implies the limitation of her understanding of Whitehorse not only due to her short stay, but also by her incomplete discovery of the town: small buildings’ entrances, lighting and reflections of indoors on windows, zoom lenses against the glass surface decoration or letters of businesses’ names.
When we go by a location many times, we might suddenly notice something never noted before and that seems new to us. Don’t we say about a place we have known for a long time “It’s the first time I’ve noticed this building, this board, these trees, etc.?”

The artwork comprised a projection of 180 photos as well as 52 photos on the back of which interviews’ fragments were printed with the thoughts of 15 Francophone and Anglophone persons about housing accessibility in Whitehorse. The images of the projection were displayed through a window on the ceiling and the columns of the entrance of the Art Centre, also creating some fragmentation of the images. The 52 photos were hanging along the hall’s windows providing a way to view both sides. Viewers interested by this subject that affects them appreciated seeing how the artist, an outsider, viewed their city and its housing crisis.