Jean-François Prost
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Jean-François Prost | |
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| Occupation | Visual Artist |
| Years active | 1998 - Present |
Jean-François Prost is a visual artist based in Montreal. He has a degree in environmental design at Université du Québec à Montréal (Montréal) and in Architecture at Carleton University (Ottawa). Among other projects, he has worked and exposed in the La Biennale de Montreal (2002) and Liverpool Biennial (2006).[1]
Artistic Work
Chambre avec vues
His first project, Chambre avec vues consisted in a wooden cabin placed in a vacant lot in Montréal. Screens in the exterior walls of the cabin would show videos of a natural landscape and a live transmition from the inner part of the cabin as some other screens would show real time video taken from the outside with another videocamera.[2]
Convivialités électives In the winter of the year 2000, Jean-François Prost installed a shelter on the frozen waters of the Saguenay River in Chicoutimi. Prost lived in the space for several weeks. The inspiration of this project came from the necessity for creating a dialogue with the surooundings and the environment but also with the local inhabitants of this borough of Saguenay, Quebec.[3]