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Vertigo Sea et Typhoon Coming On, récits obliques d’un sublime aquatique
Un banc de méduses en suspens, des migrant·es entassé·es sur un radeau de fortune en mer tourmentée, les passagers et passagères d’un voilier solitaire qui profitent du spectacle du coucher de soleil, ce sont là trois scènes qui se juxtaposent dans Vertigo Sea (2015), une installation vidéo de l’artiste britanno-ghanéen John Akomfrah. L’œuvre de 48 minutes se déploie sur trois écrans…
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Chun Hua Catherine Dong: Choosing Resilience
Dressed in matching camo pants, t-shirt and cap, Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s face is entirely covered in deer hide she has painstakingly glued onto her face prior to the performance. Over the course of 2.5 hours, the China-born and Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal-based artist sits atop a bright yellow scaffolding, towering over the audience of the Harold J.…
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Resisting Ex-Appropriation: Artistic Remains at Time of Environmental Instability
With rapidly spreading extractive practices on a global scale, the amount of residue generated raises the question of waste management and economic externalities. Are humans, and most crucially the Earth, equipped to welcome such an exponentially increasing quantity of restants? Artworks, as inexhaustible in their readings, are congenial to this idea of irreducible remains. In this…
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J’entends ton chaud murmure à travers la brûme froide
Présentée à l’approche du solstice d’hiver, l’exposition J’entends ton chaud murmure à travers la brume froide fait la part belle à l’espace transitionnel qui se (re)crée d’un changement de saison à l’autre. Commissariée par Camille Larivée, elle se veut une exploration formelle, engagée et critique du rapport aux saisons – qui s’exprime différemment d’une communauté…
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Maryse Goudreau : Dans l’œil du Béluga
Dans l’œil du béluga est une exposition monographique de l’artiste gaspésienne Maryse Goudreau dont le commissariat est assuré par Noémie Fortin. Un souffle marin accueille les visiteurs et visiteuses à la Galerie d’art Foreman de l’Université Bishop’s : portraits de béluga, peaux de phoque au sol, images maritimes imprimées sur des toiles suspendues au plafond… impossible…
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Dans l’atelier de Ayam Yaldo
A recent graduate from Concordia University with an MFA in intermedia arts, Montréal-based artist Ayam Yaldo was on the hunt for a studio space. Adamant that her work should not permeate her home, she settled on this small yet charming studio space, which she shares with four other fine arts graduates. Upon entering her space,…
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The Animal-to-Come: Zoopolitics in Deconstruction
The environmental instabilities brought about by climate change are multiple, far-reaching and progressively unpredictable, both in intensity and occurrence. While it is becoming clear that such instabilities adversely affect the lives of many humans (disproportionately those living in the Global South), resulting in a fast-increasing number of ecological refugees, it is equally clear that nonhuman…
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Waste as Narrative Devices in Contemporary Artworks
Food and waste seem to stand on two opposite ends of the digestive network’s spectrum: on the one hand, there is that which is destined to be ingested; on the other, that which stands as the result of consumption. There is rarely crossover between the two, for their juxtaposition is sure to generate abjection. While…
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Zinnia Naqvi
Zinnia Naqvi’s practice is permeated by familial archives, intergenerational dialogues, and politics of belonging. Principally lens-based, her work presents images that speak to the intimacy inherent to cherished family archives, as well as the embedded values that it represents. Past and Present II (2012 – 15) is a photographic series that explores the intergenerational identity construction of migrant families.…
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Blue: A Somatic Archive of Pain
Alongside a close analysis of the short-movie Blue (2019) by Manitoban artist Laura Magnusson, this article engages with the pain that comes from sexual trauma. Blue attests to the ongoingness and cyclical nature of traumatic pain, one that is negated by the legal apparatus that frames sexual assault trials. Through an understanding of the body…