<em>La Parole entravée</em> is an interactive installation created with the help of each of Yahndawa’s participants. Invited by Alain-Martin Richard to personalize willow branches and turn them into contact sticks, the members of the group were then asked to perform on film, revealing their own interpretation of what it means to block or liberate speech. In the gallery, the willow sticks are hung to mimic a forest under which the Pleiades shine. Their shadows lengthen to blend into the projection of the waterfall, from which ambient sound emerges and grows overbearing at times. The shifting soundscape serves as a reminder that in the cascading strength of water, overflowing and regenerating, speech can be renewed.

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