Fabiano Kueva, Alexander von Humboldt Archive Montreal

Fabiano Kueva, Archive Alexandre de Humboldt Montréal, 2023 (general view). Photo: Paul Litherland

A review of the Oboro exhibition by Fabiano Kueva and curator Emmanuelle Choquette, the Montreal stage of the “Humboldt effect” that Kueva has been pursuing for over ten years. Since 2011, Ecuadorian artist, curator and director Fabiano Kueva has been working on a multidisciplinary project based on the voyages of Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé… Continue reading Fabiano Kueva, Alexander von Humboldt Archive Montreal

Blending into the landscape

Véronique Doucet, Femme au front (Woman at the front), partial view of the exhibition. Photo : Christian Leduc

Femme au front (Woman at the front). Véronique DoucetMusée d’art de Rouyn-NorandaFrom October 13, 2023 to January 14, 2024Curators: Jean-Jacques Lachapelle and Hélène Bacquet Bringing together in a single exhibition a selection of works representative of Véronique Doucet’s twenty-five years of practice is a challenge in itself. All the more so since her approach is… Continue reading Blending into the landscape

Léna Mill-Reuillard, Airer

Léna Mill-Reuillard, Airer, Partial view of installation, DRAC Art actuel, 2023. Photo: Eliane Excoffier

Review of Léna Mill-Reuillard’s exhibition Airer, curated by Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau at DRAC Art actuel (Drummondville) in summer 2023.

Ælab devenir-hêtre. Community work

Ælab, devenir-hêtre (2023), 
laboratory-exhibition
, MÉDIANE. Chaire de recherche du Canada en arts, écotechnologies de pratique et changements climatiques. Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement
. Photo : Richard-Max Tremblay

On the exhibition Devenir hêtre (Becoming-Beech), Ælab at the Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement, Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, May 11 to May 28, 2023

Terrestrial Psyche. Mourning and Uprooting

Andréanne Godin, Memorial for a Stranger, 2011 (FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal). Photo : Justine Latour

Several of Andréanne Godin’s works underline the extent to which the territory is embedded in our memory, through memories of daily or seasonal activities that crystallize as sediment in our psyche(1). Her work also attests to the mourning and uprooting that affect the fullness of this intimate geology. Last text of a series in two… Continue reading Terrestrial Psyche. Mourning and Uprooting

Terrestrial Psyche. Territory and territorialities

Andréanne Godin, The Space in which You Still Exist, 2022. (Oboro, Montréal) Photo : Paul Litherland

What about the relationship between humans and territories, their mutual histories and the feeling of territoriality? Are they indicative of our complex, sometimes intimate, relationships to the places we live in, frequent or visit? First text of a two-part series.

Mat Chivers and Diane Borsato
Human Mineral

Diane Borsato, Gems and Minerals, 2018. Still image captured from video. Courtesy of the artist

My father was a geologist and my childhood was steeped in the scientific vocabulary specific to his field. To me, words like igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock embody the hard kernel of my father, his fascination with apparently inert matter and his singular awareness of long duration.

Disputed Territory

Alexis Gros-Louis, Önenha'; Wen'wa'/ [Superimpositions], 2022. (Partial view of the main hall). Photo: Mike Patten

Review of the exhibition : Önenha’; Wen’wa’/ [Superimpositions]Alexis Gros-Louis, artist (Curator: Terry Randy Awashish)Shé:kon Gallery, Montreal, Project Space, Biennial of Contemporary Aboriginal Art (BACA), from May 7 to June 18, 2022 (Published in Vie des arts Webzine)

Interregnum. Cohabiting the territory

Triennale Banlieue 2022. Interrègnes. Cohabiting with the Territory. Marie Perrault, principal curator; Yan Romanesky, co-curator. Pictured are Louise Noguchi, Searchers, 2016, Ludovic Boney, Afin d'éviter tous ces nœuds, 2017 (dr) and Boris Pintado, from the series Landlord, 2022, and CULTURE (tabula rasa), 2018. Photo: Guy L'Heureux

The current edition of the Banlieue! Triennial looks at the presence of nature in North American suburbs, praised for their natural setting.