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Montreal was founded at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and the little St. Pierre Rivers. Today, the St. Pierre River had vanished through the urbanization and the sanitization of the city. With the help of an historic and sewer map of Old Montreal, I located different areas where the river used to flow. Equipped with an industrial pump and a container, I pumped 2800 litres of spoiled water from underground. Transported to Quartier Éphémère the water was forced through a filtration system. The purified water then fed an aquarium filled with 55 goldfish. Whenever the aquarium would fill to capacity, the water would overflow, falling through a drain in the centre of the gallery. This process lasted 5 weeks.
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