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.
Category: Publications
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.
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.
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
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.
The body and light. Daniel Dion
Exhibition review of Daniel Dion’s La tête et les jambes, Oboro, January 8-19, 1985 (Magazine Spirale, n°50, March 1985) Last October, the same ensemble of thirty-three smaller photographs was presented simultaneously at Langage Plus in Alma, where Louis Bronsard was in charge of hanging, and in Moncton at Galerie Sans nom. This time, in January… Continue reading The body and light. Daniel Dion
Bringing an apartment to life
Published in Magazine Spirale, at the invitation of René Payant, my very first professional article ever, about Pierre Dorion’s “L’Atelier blanc” installation, exemplary of the rereading of architecture and art history that still drives him today. In a former apartment on rue Marie-Anne, the Appart gallery, directed by Marie France Thibault, opens its doors. This… Continue reading Bringing an apartment to life