Festival Art Souterrain

Radioscopie du dormeur is a post-documentary photo installation that explores sleep mechanisms, focusing on individual and collective behaviours during various sleep cycles. This project emerged from artistic residencies in Kamouraska, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, and Le Havre (France), where “sleepers” surrendered themselves to create a surprising and sensitive photogenic experience.

Equipped with an infrared device and a motion detector typical of hunting equipment, the photographer blends into the background, allowing the natural intimacy of the situation to come to the forefront. Throughout the night, a poetic interplay of movement unfolds. This project illustrates our physical connections with those we share our sleep with and, by extension, our relationship with the bedroom space. The bed, typically viewed as a place for rest and refuge, becomes the stage upon which personal and collective narratives are expressed. It transforms into a space for encounters, communion, and gestural expression, serving as a witness to a nocturnal ballet that is both conscious and unconscious.

Quebec photographer and visual artist Hayeur is acclaimed for her documentary and artistic work on themes including community, identity, human relationships, dance, movement, and ritual. Her projects, deeply rooted in lived experiences, unfold like visual journeys. Her discerning eye captures rich, nuanced atmospheres where each image conveys a story. Her sensitive and immersive approach is evident in her photographic series, which documents intimate and moving moments.

Since 2013, Hayeur has regularly published in the magazine Ciel Variable. She has been a member of Agence Stock Photo since 1994 and recently contributed to the book Agence Stock Photo — Une histoire du photojournalisme au Québec, which highlights the history of the Montreal-based collective of photographers founded in 1987. The exhibition Agence Stock Photo, notre monde en images, associated with the book, was featured as part of World Press Photo Montréal 2024 at Marché Bonsecours.