Dear Canada, do better

I grin when I enter Maura Doyle’s exhibition Dear Universe/Cher Univers at Axenéo7 in Gatineau. Empty chip bags, suspended from the ceiling and framed by the oversized window that looks out onto an idyllic backyard, hover over my head. Like a pesky flock of seagulls, they flutter over the audience, [...]

View of the exhibition « Manidoowegin » by Maria Hupfield

If objects could speak, what stories would they tell?

Peeking through the glass doors of the artist-run centre Diagonale on a cold, gloomy winter afternoon in February, art-going audiences at Le Carré de Gaspé are treated to the bright, lively, fluorescent accents of Maria Hupfield’s most recent solo exhibition, Manidoowegin/Spirit Skin: Memory and Form. Seen from the outside, the [...]

MICHAËLLE SERGILE. Textile et textualité

Michaëlle Sergile sait rire ; un bon éclat, sincère et profond. Sa réjouissance est lumineuse et elle remplit l’espace. Mais elle cache aussi quelque chose, ou du moins en partie, d’obscur. Il est difficile de s’en apercevoir au premier abord, car le rire signifie la plupart du temps gages de [...]

Blackity: Constellations of Black Canadian Art

Walking through the stacks at Artexte, in the heart of downtown Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles, we come to a small dark nook where two documentary videos play on monitors. In one thirty-two-minute film from 1994, curator Andrea Fatona and media artist Cornelia Wyngaarden document the unrecorded history of Vancouver’s Black [...]

articule déménage : retour sur l’histoire du centre

Fondé en 1979, le centre d’artistes autogéré articule est un des plus vieux lieux de création pluridisciplinaire consacrés à la recherche et à l’expérimentation artistique à Montréal. Dès son début avec sa vitrine rue de la Montagne, l’organisme à but non lucratif se fait reconnaître pour son avant gardisme et [...]

Reframing Natural History at the MAC LAU

In the foothills of the Laurentians, one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world, in the town of Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides (MAC LAU) regularly presents some of the most enticing programming in the province. Natural Stories is the second in a three-part series of [...]

CHUN HUA CATHERINE DONG. Une conversation inachevée

Chun Hua Catherine Dong est une artiste de la performance qui utilise son corps comme un vecteur conceptuel et politique. À travers la photographie et la vidéo, elle présente des œuvres qui contestent les relations de pouvoir dans les cultures dominantes tout en célébrant ses propres origines et en revisitant [...]

QUADrature: A Piece for Many Players

One impact of the closure of cultural institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been the reinvention of virtual events and exhibitions. Some curators were already adept at producing online content, but most were taken by surprise when programming had to be translated into computer code and adapted to the [...]