Occasioned by the Darling Foundry’s renovation of the artist studios building, Quartier Éphémère invited Maria Sheriff to create a permanent work, framed within Quebec’s Ministry of Culture and Communications program to integrate works of art into architecture. Taking into account the geographical location of the Darling Foundry, a sculpture on the building’s roof seemed the ideal place to carry out this ambitious project. Close to the Bonaventure expressway and meters away from the financial district, Choral plays the role of a landmark, a guidepost demarcating the Darling Foundry in its environment and summoning the passerby. As a metal sculpture, Choral firstly reminds of the Darling Foundry’s former operations, which worked with this material. Its various surfaces, jagged, metallic sheets in red and gold, rounded forms that are cuttings from aluminum sheets, intercept and reflect the light; this “vehicle for the immaterial” is favoured by the artist. According to Maria Sheriff who “compares her creative process to a voyage on the open sea,” Choral is a “prayer song,” which appeals to the spiritual. “I would like it to invite us to lift our gaze beyond our rational path” she tells us. A steel and aluminum wind rose, Choral broaches its erosion, like a playful and luminous bow, fronting a new boat of contemporary art.