An immersive and poetic project revealing the discreet yet constant presence of water in Montréal, water that seeps, condenses, rusts, accumulates, and slowly transforms urban surfaces.

River below the city examines micro-hydrological phenomena as an urban archive, highlighting the tension between human infrastructure and the persistent dynamics of the river. 

The installation combines sound, imagery, and projections to reframe the perception of aquatic rhythms shaping the urban territory.

The installation was staged as an immersive environment designed to make subtle water-related phenomena in the urban landscape perceptible. In a dark, stripped-down space, projections, samples, and textures overlap around a central island of overhead projectors, evoking a laboratory for multi-scale observation. The setup is completed by a spatialized sound composition, blending trickles, mechanical noises, and silences, that reshapes the perception of space and amplifies the river’s invisible presence.