<p class="PardfautA"><span lang="EN-CA">When two old friends, Evergon and Jean-Jacques Ringuette, play chess, it is not a game in which the players are opposed—because even as they each make moves, they come together in the construction of their photographic tableaux. In the way of still lifes, the duo gathers objects and matter that they meticulously arrange in elaborate compositions destined for the eye of the camera. From the memento mori, which sought to exhaust the potential of emotionally charged objects, their approach moved towards a horror vacui, where the resulting visual overload operates as a means of distancing the objects. Tending increasingly towards abstraction, the elements break loose from the real to become forms, motifs, and backgrounds that transport us to a world that has its own stories to tell.</span></p>