Launched in early January 2020, Le catalogue des plantes de bureau de L’UQO (The Catalogue of Office Plants at UQO), a book in French that reports on two exhibitions by Catherine Lescarbeau presented at the UQO Gallery and the Darling Foundry in Montreal in 2016.
Author: Marie Perrault. Autrice, commissaire et consultante | Art contemporain et art public
Art souterrain 2020 – RESET
If you could start from nothing how would you imagine the world? ” Humanity is at a turning point. Should we persist in our habits or become aware of our repetitive way of life in order to rebuild from the ground up? “ Following a first collaboration with Art Souterrain, its artistic director, Frédéric Loury, invited me… Continue reading Art souterrain 2020 – RESET
“A person’s home is inviolable”. Ludovic Boney’s Family Gathering
On a masterful installation by Ludovic Boney presented at the Visual Arts Gallery from April 11 to May 19, 2019 and designed specifically for the venue.
What Plants Can Tell
What Plants Can Tell , with artists Evergon and Jean-Jacques Ringuette of Chromogenic Curmudgeons (Montréal), Joscelyn Gardner (London, Ontario), Catherine Lescarbeau (Gatineau), Marie-Eve Martel (Blainville), Émilie Payeur (Montréal), Amélie Proulx (Lévis), and Laura St.Pierre (Saskatoon), presented at the Stewart-Hall Art Gallery, from December 7, 2019 to Januaray 19, 2020. Human activity is closely connected to… Continue reading What Plants Can Tell
Anne Ramsden, The Time It Takes
On the installation The Time it Takes | Le Temps qu’il faut (2014 – 2019) by Anne Ramsden presented at Occurrence. Espace d’art et d’essai contemporains (Montréal), March – April, 2019.
Reliving the Opulence of the Past
Mitch Mitchell, Sarah Thibault and Yannick Pouliot revisit the decorative arts and reflect on ornamentation, domesticity and history at the Château Dufresne, Musée et site historique et patrimonial.
Delusional hedonism. NSPSLL! by Ludovic Boney
On an installation by Ludovic Boney at Centre Action Art Actuel (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Qc), March 15 – April 21, 2018, subsequently adapted for Le Lieu – Centre en art actuel (Quebec City) in 2019 and Galerie Pierre-François-Ouellette Art Contemporain (Montreal) in 2021.
Graeme Patterson. A Suitable Den. A Landmark Den
For the Mois Multi 2018’s program, Graeme Patterson adapted an installation originally designed for the BMO Project Room, a small office on the 68th floor of the Bank of Montreal’s Toronto headquarters, which annually hosts an artist project that can be visited by appointment.
Art of Redefining Gender
Invited by Art Souterrain to curate the third edition of Vitrines sur l’art (Storefronts for Art), I agreed to collaborate on an event around gender, the theme chosen by Art Souterrain in 2018 in connection with recent news, particularly the “me-too” denunciations.
Kent Monkman. Conjugating the Past in the Present
Review of Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, presented at the Art Museum of the University of Toronto in 2017, on a Canadian tour afterwards.