Kitakinan. First Shaft, East Malartic Mines (1937)

Marie Perrault, Kitakinan. East Malartic Mines Frist Shaft (1937), 2024

In the early 1920s, Fournière Township, the site of the future town of Malartic, was in turn scoured by a host of prospectors. Their explorations confirmed the presence of a rich gold-bearing vein belonging to the Cadillac Fault, an important geological system in Quebec in which my father was a specialist.

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

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.

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.