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MONTREAL
PARISIAN LAUNDRY
DAVID ARMSTRONG SIX
David Armstrong Six's anti-form fit installation The Dry Salvages took over Parisian Laundry's idiosyncratic back gallery, which is known as the Bunker - a raw, windowless concrete box accessed via a subterranean passageway. A pink nylon line tied from end to end issued the artist's creative claim on the room's inherent condition. Armstrong Six named the piece after the third of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets and took inspiration from the poet's 1941 masterwork, a mid-life meditation in which grains of truth emerge from and dissolve into oceans of retrospection.
Eliot's transformation-by-water theme was apparent; the installation resembled the aftermath of a flood. A...