EVERYDAY STRANGE

To close the program celebrating its 10th anniversary, Galerie B-312 is pleased to invite you to an outdoor video projection organized by Monique Moumblow. The evening will be preceded by a picnic made up of what everyone will bring.** Montreal video artist Monique Moumblow brings together, under the title Everyday Strange / Étrangeté au quotidien, four monobands by three video artists, Emmanuelle Antille (Switzerland, Lausanne), Rachel Echenberg (Canada, Montreal) and Meesoo Lee (Canada, Vancouver) :

1. Meesoo Lee, Fool, 2001, 4mn. 30sec.
2. Emmanuelle Antille, Wouldn’t it be Nice, 1999, 13mn.
3. Rachel Echenberg, 12 Hours, 2001, 12mn.
4. Emmanuelle Antille, Night for Day, 2000, 23mn.

These video proposals put the idea of narrative to the test through strange juxtapositions, evoked moments that never happen or incongruous situations. The narrative, when there is a narrative, opens on a gap in meaning where what is excluded or never mentioned never ceases to resonate. -The exploration of filial love by Emmanuelle Antille in Wouldn't it be Nice and Night for Day, the tender confession of an incongruous love in Meesoo Lee's Fool, and the observation of the effects of an unusual public presence in Rachel Echenberg's 12 Hours manage to capture and transmit the consistency, so tangible but unspeakable, of what shapes the facts and gestures, both banal and automatic, that we address to others and receive from them.

—Translated from a text by JEAN-ÈMILE VERDIER