Contournement is composed of a number of elements deployed inside and outside Le Taz, a sports complex devoted to wheel-based sports such as inline skating, BMX, and skateboarding.

The artwork is made of green-painted steel pipes reminiscent of the ramps on which wheel-based sports athletes perform figures. However, these ramps have been diverted so that it is impossible, or difficult, to use them. Some run along walls and ceilings, and others are knotted in on themselves, and yet others wind around furnishings such as a garbage can and a lamppost.

As in many of his works, Bérubé was strongly inspired by the site to produce a work that plays with the conventions in effect in this place. The result is a paradoxical work, both playful and involving constraints that limit the complex’s users’ capacity for action.

The artwork was produced under the Québec government’s Politique d’intégration des arts à l’architecture et à l’environnement des bâtiments et des sites gouvernementaux et publics.