The multidisciplinary artist Christiane Patenaude explores the construction of meaning using a variety of languages. Le lavabo has been shown at Traverse vidéo in Toulouse, France in 2005, at the Images film festival in Toronto, Vidéoforme in Clermont-Ferrand, France and the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montreal in 2004, and at the Musée d’art contemporain de Nice, France and Vidéos de femme GIV in Montreal, Rimouski and Carleton in 2003.