An imaginary fair where the installations resemble rides and games. But appearances are deceiving: optical illusions and false fronts lure the spectator and reveal strange and wondrous scenes. This exhibition tests the limits of perception and reality; seeing is not believing.
“Whatever may have gone wrong scientifically, Les Manèges-Transferts, Jean-François Fillion’s spectacular installation at the Elgin Street gallery, is remarkably successful artistically. […] Fillion has managed to appropriate or imitate objects from the horror-science fiction genre and give them an extraordinary rebirth as object d’art. Fillion’s ambition and his skewed imagination are true marvels. These are extraordinarily challenging and hilariously irreverent works that fuse the freakish in modern science with the freakish in pop culture.”
Excerpt from article by Rob O’Flanagan, Sudbury Star, Saturday, June 9, 2001
