We are the Fragments. We slip between worlds.Unseen, untouchable. Always shifting.
Fragments don’t knock. We don’t ask permission. We bend reality like it’s nothing but a thin veil. We don’t belong to one place, one time, or one dimension. We are echoes, memories, reflections—bits of existence cut loose.
We appear in the corner of your eye. A flash of something impossible. A presence you can’t name.
Our worlds collide, and suddenly, reality fractures—one moment ordinary, the next, extraordinary. We pull the familiar into the surreal, turning everyday moments into portals for parallel possibilities.
We are not your friends. We are not your enemies.
We are the in-between, the unexplained, the other side of perception
Nothing stays untouched. Nothing stays whole.
Reality won’t hold...
We are the Fragments. We slip between worlds.Unseen, untouchable. Always shifting.
Fragments don’t knock. We don’t ask permission. We bend reality like it’s nothing but a thin veil. We don’t belong to one place, one time, or one dimension. We are echoes, memories, reflections—bits of existence cut loose.
We appear in the corner of your eye. A flash of something impossible. A presence you can’t name.
Our worlds collide, and suddenly, reality fractures—one moment ordinary, the next, extraordinary. We pull the familiar into the surreal, turning everyday moments into portals for parallel possibilities.
We are not your friends. We are not your enemies.
We are the in-between, the unexplained, the other side of perception
Nothing stays untouched. Nothing stays whole.
Reality won’t hold...
About Fragments of Nowhere
At a moment when images are increasingly produced, transformed and circulated through systems whose operations exceed our immediate perception, Fragments of Nowhere asks what it means to make and to look without being entirely certain of what takes place between an intention and what eventually appears. The exhibition approaches this uncertainty not as something to resolve, but as a space in which to work. Across moving images, objects and installations, familiar materials are displaced through successive acts of translation, alteration and encounter, allowing forms to emerge that could not have been fully anticipated. Drifters, Field Distortions and fragmented landscapes populate this unstable territory, less as representations of another world than as evidence of processes whose origins and outcomes remain deliberately difficult to locate. What is at stake is therefore not the spectacle of technological transformation itself, but the perceptual distance it produces. Fragments of Nowhere lingers in that interval, where recognition and uncertainty can coexist, and where an alteration does not necessarily obscure what was there before. It may allow something else within it to become perceptible. The anomaly, then, is not simply a rupture in what we know, but a possible point of access to what our usual ways of seeing leave out.
About VALLEE DUHAMEL
Vallée Duhamel is a Montréal-based artist duo founded by Julien Vallée and Eve Duhamel. Their multidisciplinary practice moves between moving image, installation, sculpture and computational processes, exploring transformation, perception and the shifting relationships between material, image and technology. Drawing from physical experimentation and emerging forms of image-making, their work constructs environments in which familiar forms are displaced, recombined and made strange, opening onto new ways of seeing and experiencing the everyday.
Their work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, ELEKTRA and Centre Clark in Montréal, Paradiso in Mérida, and the Sydney Design Festival, with a retrospective presented at Le Livart in Montréal in 2021. Their practice has also circulated through festivals, screenings, publications and conferences internationally. Recipients of distinctions from D&AD, Cannes Lions, SXSW and Communication Arts, Vallée Duhamel have presented their work and research through lectures and talks across Europe and North America. Alongside their studio practice, they have taught experimental practice at the École de design de l’UQAM.