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Ryoji Ikeda
Most of the installations and live performances by the leading Japanese composer and artist Ryoji Ikeda are known to overwhelm and saturate viewers’ visual and aural senses. In C4I, first an audiovisual live concert (2004) and then an audiovisual installation (2006), Ikeda aims at revealing the omnipresence of data and its interference with our reading of…
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Wei Ling Hung
Displayed on a floating shelf is a blank opened notebook, and delicately carved on the right page are the Laozi words 玄牝 (Xuan Pin). Whereas Xuan – 玄 – means that which is profound and subtle, the unseen, the darkness, and the colour black, Pin – 牝 – refers to the female gender, especially as…
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Shirin Salehi
Images are not innocent. They can trigger storytelling and unveil otherwise hidden worlds. From broken poems to erased images, most of the artist Shirin Salehi’s recent work engages with notions of removal, refusal, and restraint. How can unshareable stories be shared? What artistic gestures can allow for those voices to still be heard and meaningfully…
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Maddie McNeely
Upon entering the carefully curated space of the sculptor and installation artist Maddie McNeely, we are met with an intriguing, low-to-the-ground sculpture. Atop 168 uneven artisanal briquettes sits a giant crafted walnut cut in half. It is made of carved walnut wood, and its scale is as puzzling as it is inviting. On closer examination,…
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Lisa Tronca
Comment la recherche peut-elle faire espace et être commissariée ? Cette question accompagne la commissaire, autrice et codirectrice générale de la revue ESPACE art actuel Lisa Tronca tout au long de sa résidence à Est-Nord-Est. Les murs de son studio y sont tapissés de notes, images, citations et concepts reliés par des fils rouges à une installation où…
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Annie France Leclerc
Une table jonchée de petites fioles d’encres naturelles, fleurs, herbes, roches, piles de livres, images et photographies nous accueille dans le studio maximaliste de l’artiste multidisciplinaire Annie France Leclerc. Celui-ci déborde généreusement à l’extérieur, où une cuisine d’été est aménagée ; sur des ronds de poêle mijotent des solutions naturelles avec lesquelles elle crée ses photographies.…
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Shannon Garden-Smith
Snail-work, or give the colours what turns you please (dans les cérémonies) (2024) is a large floor installation made of saturated pigmented sand, which ranges in color from deep red, bright yellow to emerald green. The sand is meticulously arranged in long, slightly uneven, scalloped-patterned stripes which references the Turkish/Persian tradition of marbled endpaper. This…
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Gwenyth Chao
Amorphous (2017–19) is a sculptural installation made from expired edible rice paper. The sculptures resemble stiff, crinkled translucent sheets of plastic that have retained an imprint of the uneven matrix against which they were moulded. The folds and creases create delicate shadows that expand the sculptures’ reach into the space. Created by Tkaronto-based artist Gwenyth Chao—this…
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Jin-me Yoon
In Untunnelling Vision (2020), a photography and video installation, viewers are immersed in an apocalyptic landscape. The Canadian Armed Forces leased some of the land of the Tsuut’ina Nation and contaminated it while conducting “war games” over a ninety-year period. This same land was later used as the backdrop for the Canadian war film Passchendaele (2008). The movie’s producer…
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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.…