Situated near Lake St. Louis, Liberté, liberté chérie, evoking sails swollen by the wind, is harmoniously integrated with its host environment. The white abstract sculpture is composed of cut-out planes with clean angles and curves that define volumes largely open to the exterior while converging toward the interior through a play of oblique lines.

This work was preceded by a series of small steel sculptures produced to explore the possibilities for assembling cut-out planes in clean angles and curves. White, giving a sense of airborne, the work makes room for the visitor’s body to circulate among its components. Visitors can thus appreciate differently the relationship among the elements and their scale: “The sculpture Liberté, liberté chérie even allows viewers to penetrate within the parts of the artwork. They measure the space with their body, bending over as needed to follow the meanders.”

The sculpture was used in a performance by Jocelyne Montpetit in 1999, for the film Barbeau libre comme l’art directed by Manon Barbeau.

Liberté, liberté chérie was produced for the second Symposium de la sculpture de Lachine, “L’an II – Lachine, carrefour de l’art et de l’industrie, an event organized by the Lachine Canal in summer 1986.