Category: Publications

Catherine Lescarbeau’s The Office Plant Department: A disruptive bio inc

Catherine Lescarbeau, Le département des plantes de bureau de l’UQO, (The Office Plant Department at UQO), 2016. Galerie de l’UQO. Photo: Pavel Pavlov

Since 2014, Catherine Lescarbeau has been producing bio-critical conceptual works, under the name of a fictional horticultural service company called The Office Plant Department.

The Catalogue of Office Plants at UQO, Catherine Lescarbeau.

Catherine Lescarbeau, Catalogue des plantes de bureau de l’UQO (Catalogue of Office Plants at UQO), 2020. Photo : Marie Perrault

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.

“A person’s home is inviolable”. Ludovic Boney’s Family Gathering

Ludovic Boney, Rassemblement familial (Family Gathering), Installation at the Visual Arts Gallery of Laval University, 2019. (detail) Photo : Marie Perrault

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.

Delusional hedonism. NSPSLL! by Ludovic Boney

Ludovic Boney, NSPSLL, Action Art Actuel, Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, 2018. Photo : Marie Perrault

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

Graeme Patterson, A Suitable Den, Galerie des arts visuels de l’Université Laval (Laval University Visual Arts Gallery), 2018. (detail). Photo : Michel Boucher

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.