Born in 1969, this young multidisciplinary artist is known mainly for two projects - one at Quartier Éphémère in 1998, and the other at Dare-Dare in 1999 - that are closely related to the subject of water and landscape: "I am not an explorer," wrote this enthusiast artist who is courageously re-examining Land Art and is interested in Aristotle, Descartes, Rousseau and Montaigne (also hunting and fishing), "I am more like an archaeologist trying to trace levels of understanding nature.

" We thought it would be difficult not to offer a space along the Lachine Canal to this intrepid philosopher who has already buried a wooden toy bed in the ground on an island called Patience. That had something to do with checking the orator Antiphon's aphorism, concerning "a bed that could never become another bed."

This time, Aubé has gone looking in the vicinity of the Canal for a waterway (the Saint Pierre River) that no longer exists because of industrialisation, a river "bed" echoing that of Antiphon...