Émile Riopel: S’il le faut, je me réduirai en cendres pour être sûr que le vent m’emporte at Centre CLARK gathers sculptural “tools” and hybrid objects that feel excavated from lost uses. Between assemblage and conjecture, the works sting, grasp, and wink—forms perpetrated rather than finished—testing how handmade implements embody desire, labour, and sensory meaning in public display.
