Barricades is a site-specific work, born from the need to soundproof an entrance to the DIY HIFI room in its installation at the Musée d’art Joliette. Inspired by the aesthetic of music rehearsal studios, I made this soundproofing with materials at hand: found carpets, curtains, and pieces of furniture that I collected from the street. Like artists’ and artisans’ studios, rehearsal spaces are usually clustered in industrial buildings. The functional and decorative elements in these environments are often created with whatever happens to be around, creating an aesthetic that’s quite incongruous, frayed, clumsy, and dilapidated. In many large cities, these precious spaces are threatened with elimination thanks to real-estate speculation and gentrification. The barricades are, in a way, acts of resistance to the systemic forces that, by definition, absorb spaces of freedom and practices considered marginal.