Installed on the bank of the St. Lawrence River, in Parc de la Promenade-Bellerive, is Continuum 2009 (à la mémoire de Pierre Perrault), an abstract artwork composed of three elements made of Corten steel. These elements form a series of vertical and horizontal planes that frame an empty space. In this sense, the artwork stands as a window on the site, offering privileged points of view on the landscape and the activities that take place in the park.

People and their living environment were always central to Pierre Perrault’s work, and Roland Poulin wanted to pay tribute to the filmmaker by offering, in his turn, an artwork that highlighted the site and people, who could become participants in the artwork by crossing through its frame.

The sculpture offers a fluid space between the real and the fictional, between the site and the sculpture, and between nature and sculpture.
– Roland Poulin

The artwork pays tribute to Pierre Perrault. A playwright, poet, and radio producer, Perrault became a filmmaker at the National Film Board in 1962. Among his films are the Isle-aux-Coudres documentary trilogy Pour la suite du monde (1962, co-produced with Michel Brault), Le règne du jour (1967), and Les voitures d'eau (1968). His work was imbued with humanism and explored the notion of national identity. Perrault received the Governor General’s Award in 1963, 1975, and 1999, and the Prix Duvernay in 1968. He was born in Montréal on June 29, 1927, and died in the city where he was born on June 23, 1999.