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.
Author: Marie Perrault. Autrice, commissaire et consultante | Art contemporain et art public
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.
Pasts in the Present. Inventing Tomorrow
A live creation experience: twelve artists from Quebec, Canada, France and the United States at work around the theme Past in the Present.
Rhythms of the imaginary of technology
As part of the events celebrating Molior’s 15th anniversary, the exhibition looks at the development and appropriation of technology by artists, as reflected in the organization’s activities over the years. The initial intuition for the exhibition was inspired by a major research project conducted by Greg Lynn at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, looking at… Continue reading Rhythms of the imaginary of technology
Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens. The Power of Alienation
About Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens’ Life at Work, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, February 18-April 16, 2016. For close to ten years, Marilou Lemmens and Richard Ibghy have been looking at human activity and the ways in which it has been taken over by commodification and the market economy. The curator… Continue reading Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens. The Power of Alienation
Lauri Astala. Disorientation
Disorientation brings together the video and video-interactive works On Disappearance (2012) and Transit (2013) by the Finnish artist Lauri Astala.
Mobilities
In 2016, the 34th Baie-Saint-Paul International Symposium of Contemporary Art, explored phenomena concerned with mobilities and the imaginary motivating it.
Marie Côté : Contours, Detours and Turning Points
This exhibition highlights Marie Coté’s interest in the material, space and sound that link ceramics to a prime experience of Earth.
Pierre Allard. VIVRE (LIVE)
A text written around 1995, during a collaboration with Pierre Allard, feverishly found in my archives and reviewed in the wake of the turmoil caused by his death on November 25, 2018.